President Biden stated that “the Iranian government is so oppressive, you can’t have anything but an enormous amount of respect for those people marching in the street… It’s been really amazing. But they’re not a good group, in the government”. President Raisi subsequently  asserted that saying Biden, “who allows himself through his comments to incite chaos, terror and destruction in another country, should be reminded of the eternal words of the founder of the Islamic Republic, who called America and great satan”.