"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, 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 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
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
reelection in Iran's presidential polls in May 2017.
He did not say to which candidate his descriptions referred.
(Reporting by Dubai newsroomm, Editing by William Maclean and
Toby Chopra)
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