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Rouhani also dismissed the U.S. and Saudi governments' $110 billion dollar arms deal, saying: "You can't solve terrorism just by giving your people's money to a superpower".
Since the deal was made in 2015, Iran has test-fired several ballistic missiles and the latest was the first for the Trump administration.
"We should bring peace and stability back to the region. In Syria, they made mistakes, and also in Yemen".
"It would be nice if countries of the region, which give billions of dollars in exchange for America's mirage of support, would give their people the right to self-determination, thus ensuring their stability and well-being", said Qasemi. "That's the problem. Those who are advising the Americans are unfortunately rulers who deviate America with unsound advice or buy some influence in the USA with their money", he said.
The US has no other way but to think of "a win-win approach vis-a-vis Iran, otherwise they will fail", he said.
In a speech to Arab Muslim leaders in Riyadh on Sunday, Trump singled out Iran as the world's biggest sponsor of terrorism. "We expect Iran to behave responsibly. not to support terror", said his German counterpart Sigmar Gabriel.
"The people said no to destruction. and said yes to unity, moderation, engagement and wisdom".
UN Resident Coordinator in Iran Gary Lewis has expressed his excitement regarding cooperation with Iran during President Hassan Rouhani's second term.
Municipal councils govern across Iran's major cities down to its smallest villages, with members serving four-year terms.
Rouhani was responding to a question on Monday from The Associated Press at a news conference in Tehran.
"Our missiles are for defence and peace", Rouhani said, adding that the USA expectations from Iran to halt its defensive missile program is "an illusion".
On Monday, Rouhani, however, said that Iran will continue to test its missiles anytime if there is a "technical need", and it will not seek the permission of any other country to do so. But the mystery cleared in no time as it became clear the U.S. leader was signalling a major policy shift in which the even-handedness of the Barack Obama years towards Sunni and Shia Islam would go.
Trump also called on the Islamic world to renew it's fight to drive out extremists.
President Rouhani is a moderate and reformist figure in Iranian politics known chiefly for negotiating a deal on Iran's nuclear power that ended up controversial both with the Western powers that signed it and in Iran.
Neither Sanders nor Nichols mentioned that the Iranian regime has been accused of rigging elections, most famously in 2009, when then-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won reelection under suspect circumstances. "We could not protect the system and revolution if it were not for the elections, ballot boxes and the people's presence at ballot boxes", he said in the mausoleum.
