Choices are ‘bad’ or ‘worse’, says Tehran
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IRANIAN President Hassan Rouhani said yesterday the choice offered to voters in the American presidential election was between “bad and worse.”
Furthermore, he added harsh exchanges in the debates pointed to a lack of morality in the United States, which is Tehran’s arch adversary.
“America claims it has more than 200 years of democracy, and they have had 50 presidential elections, but there is no morality in that country,” Rouhani said in a speech that was carried live by state television.
“You saw the presidential debates, how they talk, ... how they accuse and mock (each other),” Rouhani told a crowd gathered at a stadium during his visit to the central Iranian city of Arak.
Rouhani said a head of state had asked him during his visit to the United Nations in September about who he preferred between the Republican candidate Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.
“I said should I prefer bad over worse or worse over bad?,” said Rouhani, a pragmatist politician and cleric who may run for re-election in Iran’s presidential polls next May.
He did not say to which candidate his descriptions referred.
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