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How Iran views the US election

Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has described the choice of US presidential candidates as 'catastrophic', while President Hassan Rouhani called it a choice between 'bad' and 'worse'. Iranian-American journalist Azadeh Moaveni describes how the US presidential election is being discussed in the Islamic Republic.

(Image: A voter reflected in the glass frame of a poster while leaving a polling station in Atlanta on 1st November 2016. Credit: David Goldman)

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