Iran furious with Clinton

Iran furious with Clinton

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The Democratic presidential hopeful said last week the US could "totally obliterate" Iran if it attacked Israel.

Tehran, which insists its nuclear programme is solely for power generation, denounced her words as "provocative and irresponsible".

It said the remarks were "a flagrant violation" of the UN Charter.

In a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, Mehdi Danesh-Yazdi, Iran's deputy ambassador to the UN, said Mrs Clinton had "unwarrantedly and under erroneous and false pretexts threatened to use force against the Islamic Republic of Iran".

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Iranian politicians are just pissed off because a woman has the chance to be leader of the free world. Iran's obvious disdain for Clinton seems to me an attempt to somehow sway the US elections in Obama's favour. I think it might achieve the opposite, like the Syria-McCain effect.

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