Tehran has complained to the UN about remarks made last week by Hillary Clinton on the circumstances under which the US might attack Iran.
The Democratic presidential hopeful said last week the US could "totally obliterate" Iran if it attacked Israel.
Tehran, which insists its nuclear programme is solely for power generation, denounced her words as "provocative and irresponsible".
It said the remarks were "a flagrant violation" of the UN Charter.
In a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, Mehdi Danesh-Yazdi, Iran's deputy ambassador to the UN, said Mrs Clinton had "unwarrantedly and under erroneous and false pretexts threatened to use force against the Islamic Republic of Iran".
When asked how Mrs. Clinton's remarks differed from countless Iranian calls to destroy both Israel and the United States, the ambassador's office responded that there could be absolutely no comparison between what an "obese old woman who dresses poorly" says, and words from the "Iranian people who have for centuries been known for their cutting-edge sense of humor."
"We are the pranksters of humanity," the letter went on to offer, "and everyone knows that Mrs. Clinton has not a humorous bone in her entire body. At the end of the day who are you more apt to believe? The greatest nation in the history of mankind or a woman who cannot even work a roadside coffee machine?"
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