Reuters - Laughter during U.S. President Donald Trump�s speech to the U.N. General Assembly was a sign of the United States� isolation, the head of Iran�s elite Revolutionary Guards said on Wednesday, Fars News reported.

�You saw and heard their laughter,� Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari said, according to Fars. �The message of this ridicule was the crumbling of your facade and the increased isolation of America, and this was a big political disgrace.�

Some delegates at the general assembly on Tuesday laughed and muttered when Trump, in a speech, praised the �extraordinary� achievements of his administration.

@You can be sure that the people of Iran and the region are laughing at your completely false and ridiculous claims, but you can�t hear their laughter from far away.�

Trump and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani exchanged taunts at the assembly session, with Trump threatening more sanctions against Tehran and Rouhani suggesting the U.S. president suffered from a �weakness of intellect�.

�America is the symbol of oppression in the world,� Jafari said. �And the oppressed and those in pursuit of freedom are uniting against them.�


Reporting By Babak Dehghanpisheh; Editing by Hugh Lawson and Angus MacSwan