TEHRAN, Dec 10: Iran on Tuesday dismissed an offer from Israel`s president to meet his Iranian counterpart as a propaganda ploy to ease Israeli isolation over a nuclear accord between Tehran and world powers.`This propaganda to help the regime out of isolation will prove fruitless,` foreign ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham told reporters.

She said President Shimon Peres`s offer was aimed at helping Iran`s arch-foe Israel out of its isolation after its outspoken opposition to the nuclear deal clinched last month in Geneva.

Asked on Sunday about a possible meeting with Iran`s President Hassan Rouhani, Peres said: `Why not? I don`t have enemies. It`s not a question of personalities but of policies.

`The aim is to transform enemies into friends,` said the president, whose role in Israel is symbolic and ceremonial.

But the foreign ministry spokeswoman said her country would never recognise the Jewish state or change its stand.-AFP