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Hassan Rouhani hit back (Picture: AFP/Getty Images)

The president of Iran has hit back at Donald Trump, calling him ‘intellectually unstable’.

Hassan Rouhani, a 68-year-old cleric and political moderate within his country, said relations with the US would be ‘a curvy road’.

He added that Iranians were ‘waiting for this [American] government to become stable intellectually’.

‘Hopefully, things will settle down… so we could pass more accurate judgments,’ Rouhani said.


President Donald Trump used his speech at the Arab Islamic American Summit to denounce Iran, which was not present (Picture: AP)

‘The Americans do not know our region, that’s what the catch is,’ the Iranian president added.

‘Unfortunately, Americans have always made mistakes in our region.

‘When they attacked Afghanistan [and] Iraq, when they made sanctions against Iran. In Syria, they made mistakes, and also in Yemen.’

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In a speech delivered to state leaders in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Trump called for middle eastern nations to further isolate Iran.



Iran has been a long-standing political rival of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Trump then reiterated his strong criticism of Iran during a trip to Israel today.