Joe Biden mentioned ‘we're going to free Iran’. Its president's stern reply | World News

Iran's president on Friday mentioned that the nation had been freed by the 1979 Islamic revolution in response to a vow by US president Joe Biden to "free Iran".

“Possibly he mentioned this due to a scarcity of focus...He mentioned we goal to liberate Iran," Iran president Ebrahim Raisi mentioned in a televised speech.

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“Mr. President! Iran was liberated 43 years in the past, and it’s decided to not change into your captive once more. We'll by no means change into a milk cow,” he added.

The remarks come amid nationwide demonstrations throughout Iran which have been triggered following the demise of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini within the custody of Iran's controversial morality police.

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The protests which have continued for seven weeks have been ignited in September have proven no indicators of abating even after repeated warnings from Iran's authorities.

As Iran's crackdown on protesters turned lethal, greater than 2,000 teachers from universities throughout the US wrote to Joe Biden urging him to take extra motion. The lecturers referred to as for “pressing consideration to a dire state of affairs in Iranian universities,” and requested Joe Biden to take “additional tangible actions".

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Earlier, US president Joe Biden vowed to "free" Iran including that the protesters would quickly achieve liberating themselves.

"Don't be concerned, we're gonna free Iran. They’re gonna free themselves fairly quickly," Joe Biden mentioned at a marketing campaign rally.