On Jan. 17, Iran’s moderate President Hassan Rouhani held a press conference on the one-year anniversary of the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

Rouhani addressed a range of issues, including the implementation of the nuclear deal, the country’s economic situation and the termination of sanctions. He also responded to questions about rumors that the Guardian Council intends to disqualify his expected bid for re-election in May, the house arrests of the Green Movement leaders and US President-elect Donald Trump’s disparaging remarks about the JCPOA.

In its Jan. 18 edition, the ultra-conservative Javan newspaper focused on Rouhani’s reaction to a question about Trump: “Things went out of Rouhani’s hands and caused him to recite the Quranic verse ‘But perhaps you hate a thing and it is good for you’ [2:216] for Trump, who has said that ‘he doesn’t like the JCPOA’ instead of bringing up legal reasons [for his opposition]. He [Rouhani] then said this historic sentence: ‘The JCPOA is good for America, but he [Trump] doesn’t get it.’”

Under the headline “Wear [your] glasses,” the hard-line Vatan-e-Emrooz on Jan. 18 noted the part of the press conference in which Rouhani sarcastically addressed domestic critics of the nuclear deal in saying, “Some say we can’t see the effects of the JCPOA: So wear glasses or cure yourself [of poor vision].”