Austria says president invited to Iran

Austria's president has been invited to Iran, his office said Wednesday, in what would be the first visit by a Western head of state since President Hassan Rouhani's election. "Yes it is correct that the president (Heinz Fischer) has been invited to Iran," spokeswoman Astrid Salmhofer told AFP. The 2013 election of Rouhani, a relative moderate, to succeed the more hardline Mahmoud Ahmadinejad