<p class="title">Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urged Muslims worldwide on Saturday to unite against the United States and assured Saudis they were "brothers" who had nothing to fear from Tehran.</p>.<p class="bodytext">US President Donald Trump abandoned a landmark 2015 nuclear deal between major powers and Tehran in May and has since reimposed crippling unilateral sanctions.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"What the United States wants of (West Asia) today is enslavement," Rouhani told an Islamic unity conference in Tehran.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Instead of "rolling out the red carpet for criminals," Muslim governments should unite against the United States and "the region's cancerous tumour", Israel, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rouhani urged Shia Iran's Sunni rival Saudi Arabia to end its dependence on "insulting" US military aid.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We are ready to defend the Saudi people's interests against terrorism and superpowers with all our might," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We do not ask $450 billion for it and will not insult you." Riyadh cut diplomatic ties with Tehran in January 2016 after protesters stormed its diplomatic missions in Iran following its execution of a prominent Shia cleric.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It accuses Tehran of fomenting unrest among Shias in the Gulf Arab states and the two governments have supported opposing sides in devastating civil wars in Syria and Yemen.</p>
<p class="title">Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urged Muslims worldwide on Saturday to unite against the United States and assured Saudis they were "brothers" who had nothing to fear from Tehran.</p>.<p class="bodytext">US President Donald Trump abandoned a landmark 2015 nuclear deal between major powers and Tehran in May and has since reimposed crippling unilateral sanctions.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"What the United States wants of (West Asia) today is enslavement," Rouhani told an Islamic unity conference in Tehran.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Instead of "rolling out the red carpet for criminals," Muslim governments should unite against the United States and "the region's cancerous tumour", Israel, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rouhani urged Shia Iran's Sunni rival Saudi Arabia to end its dependence on "insulting" US military aid.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We are ready to defend the Saudi people's interests against terrorism and superpowers with all our might," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We do not ask $450 billion for it and will not insult you." Riyadh cut diplomatic ties with Tehran in January 2016 after protesters stormed its diplomatic missions in Iran following its execution of a prominent Shia cleric.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It accuses Tehran of fomenting unrest among Shias in the Gulf Arab states and the two governments have supported opposing sides in devastating civil wars in Syria and Yemen.</p>