Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday that his US counterpart Donald Trump had "no right" to sympathise with Iranian protesters who he has previously called "terrorists". 

"This man who today in America wants to sympathise with our people has forgotten that a few months ago he called the nation of Iran terrorist," Rouhani told a cabinet meeting, according to the state broadcaster. 

"This person whose whole being is against the nation of Iran has no right to feel pity for the people of Iran."