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US President Donald Trump PHOTOS: Reuters
Iranian President Hassan Rohani described Donald Trump as “crazy” and compared him to former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, predicting that the US president would follow the fate of Hussein, who was hanged in a Baghdad prison 14 years ago. . The independent. “
“The day the madman was hanged was the day the people celebrated the final victory,” President Rohani told a government meeting. “Trump’s fate will not be much better than Saddam’s.”
Rohani criticized four weeks before Trump left office and possibly faced calls from federal and state authorities to take action during and before his year-long term.
The Trump administration withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal and introduced a “maximum pressure” policy targeting the Iranian economy.
Rohani described Hussein, who started a devastating eight-year war against Iran in the 1980s, and Trump as mentally unbalanced bullies.
“One madman in our region was Saddam, who declared war on our nation, and the other madman was Trump, who declared a new war on our people,” he said in a statement broadcast on state television.
“One declared war on us, while the other declared economic war on us.”
Hussein, who was captured by the US military after the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq, was sentenced to death and later hanged.
Translation and editing: Vincent Tanowski
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