NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Monday that it would have been a travesty for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to visit the "Ground Zero" World Trade Center site in New York.

"I think it would have been a travesty," Rice told cable channel CNBC in an interview. "This is somebody who is the president of a country that is probably the greatest sponsor -- state sponsor -- of terrorism."