Iran’s president lashes out at nuke deal critics

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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has offered his harshest criticism yet of hard-liners opposed to making a deal over its contested nuclear program with world powers, saying they should go “to hell.”

Rouhani made the comments Monday while addressing an annual meeting of Iranian ambassadors, calling the hard-line critics “political cowards.”

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