Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Tuesday Iran would show "no mercy" towards "hostile" opponents of the Islamic Republic, AFP reported.
His comments come as Iran deals with the ongoing protests that have gripped the country since the September 16 death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, after she was arrested by the morality police.
Addressing a crowd in Tehran, Raisi accused "hypocrites, monarchists and all anti-revolutionary currents".
"The embrace of the nation is open to all those who were lured," said the president at a funeral procession for unidentified soldiers who perished during Iran’s eight-year war in the 1980s with neighboring Iraq. READ MORE