Iran slams Don’s ‘gangster’ speech

Tehran, Sept. 21: Iran’s supreme leader on Thursday lashed out against US President Donald Trump describing the speech he delivered at the UN this week as full of “gangster and cowboy” rhetoric.

“The reason behind the foolish, very ugly, insolent and disorderly speech with cowboy and gangster wording... is their anger (and) desperation,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in reference to Mr Trump and the US administration.

In remarks to a top clerical body, the Assembly of Experts, carried by his website, Khamenei described Mr Trump and the United States administration as “having no brains”. “The US President’s remarks are not a source of pride for the American nation and the elite of that country should feel ashamed of... having such a President,” Khamenei said.

The Assembly of Experts is a body of elected clerics that oversees the functions of the supreme leader and has

The US President’s remarks are not a source of pride for the American nation and the elite of that country should feel ashamed of... having such a President — Ayatollah Ali

Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader

constitutional powers to select and even dismiss the leader. Mr Trump delivered a scathing verbal attack against Iran in his maiden speech to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.

The US President referred to the Islamic republic as a “murderous regime” and a “depleted rogue state whose chief exports are violence, bloodshed and chaos”.

He also called the nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers, including the United States, an “embarrassment” for Washington.

Tensions between Tehran and Washington have increased under Mr Trump’s administration.

In 2015, Iran reached an agreement with Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the US to curtail most of its atomic programme in return for lifting of some economic sanctions.