Iran's🇮🇷 leader Rouhani slams Trump in UN speech

President Hassan Rouhani of Iran used a speech to the UN General Assembly to hit back at Donald Trump over the US president's criticisms of his country and its 2015 nuclear deal.

In his debut speech to the UN on Tuesday, President Trump included Iran among a "small group of rogue regimes".

Rouhani responded by referring to a "rogue newcomer to international politics". He denied his country would be the first to violate the agreement but said Iran would "respond decisively and resolutely to its violation by any party". It would be a "great pity", he added, if the agreement were to be destroyed by Trump.

Trump also accused Iran's government of being bent on "death and destruction". Iran, he said, was a "corrupt dictatorship" and an "economically depleted rogue state" that exported violence.

To this, Rouhani deplored that it was an "ignorant, absurd and hateful rhetoric" which was "unfit to be heard at the United Nations".

UCJ, UNILORIN.