**The US secretary of state has said Washington is still willing to engage with Iran but that political turmoil there means a response is unlikely.**Hillary Clinton told the BBC the US was waiting for Iran to respond but that Tehran “does not have any capacity to make that kind of decision right now”.
Barack Obama has made verbal overtures towards Iran, but last week Mrs Clinton warned its time to respond was limited.
The US accuses Iran of pursuing nuclear weapons, a charge Iran denies.
“We haven’t had any response,” Mrs Clinton told the BBC’s state department correspondent Kim Ghattas.
“We’ve certainly reached out and made it clear that’s what we’d be willing to do, even now, despite our absolute condemnation of what they’ve done in the [12 June presidential] election and since but I don’t think they have any capacity to make that kind of decision right now.”
The Iranian opposition has accused President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of rigging the outcome of the poll, which saw Mr Ahmadinejad returned to office.
Days of streets protests against the results were violently suppressed, drawing widespread condemnation from around the world.