EXCHANGE OF INSULTS
America has no achievements at UN General Assembly, says Iran’s president
Geneva — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the US has nothing to show for its appearance at the UN this week, extending an exchange of insults with Tehran’s arch-adversary. President Donald Trump used his address to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday to denounce Iran as a "corrupt dictatorship" whose leaders "sow chaos, death and destruction", and told the UN Security Council on Wednesday that Washington was pursuing further sanctions against the Islamic Republic. Rouhani, in his General Assembly speech, suggested Trump suffered from a "weakness of intellect" after having withdrawn the US from big powers’ 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, a move that dismayed European allies of Washington. At a news conference on Thursday following his return to Tehran, Rouhani said of the annual UN gathering: "The Americans had no achievements in this public assembly. When Mr Trump was speaking and at the beginning of his speech bragged a lot about the accomplishments of his two-year-old administrat...
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