Iran Too "Great" To Be Intimidated: President Rouhani
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has declared the Islamic republic is “too great to be intimidated by anyone” in a late night meeting with clerics.
“God willing we will pass this difficult period with glory and our heads held high, and defeat the enemy,” Rouhani said late Monday as he met Sunni clerics to mark the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, English Alarabiya reports.
He was speaking afterfour ships, including two Saudi oil tankers, were reportedly attacked off the UAE coast on Sunday, in a sign of mounting regional tensions.
Iran has called for an investigation into what it called an “alarming” incident.