28 May, 2017
'Unfortunately, Americans have always made mistakes in our region.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi also claimed that US policy in the Middle East was destabilizing the region.
"Once again, by his repetitive and baseless claims about Iran, the American president. tried to encourage the countries of the [Middle East] region to purchase more arms by spreading Iranophobia", Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said a day after Trump sealed a massive arms deal with Iran's arch-rival, Saudi Arabia, worth $110 billion.
Iran's Supreme Leader has said that Saudi Arabia is a "cow being milked" by the United States.
Qassemi said Washington was "reinvigorating terrorists in the region by its hostile policies" and "should stop selling arms to risky terrorists". "It is a government that speaks openly of mass murder, vowing the destruction of Israel, death to America, and ruin for many leaders and nations in this room".
On Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif lashed at Trump for appeasing Saudi Arabia. Rouhani, a cleric whose administration struck the 2015 landmark nuclear deal with world powers, decisively won a second term in Friday's election.
Hassan Rouhani, who was returned as Iranian president in weekend elections, later said: "You can't solve terrorism just by giving your people's money to a superpower".He added that it was Iran's allies in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq that had been leading the fight against the Islamic State group and other jihadists. His first term was marked by an emergent global outreach, a move supported by then-US President Barack Obama.
The president added that "the issue of terrorism can not be solved through giving money to superpowers".
Conservative clerics were also angered by the fact that men and women danced together in the streets of Tehran following Rouhani's election victory, testing the country's strict segregation rules, Reuters reported.
