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But Iran’s leadership has maintained a defiant tone, vowing to meet any aggression with a “more severe and powerful response,” according to a statement by Pezeshkian on Saturday.

However, despite two lengthy spells of pressure in the last 10 minutes of the first half, they were rebuffed by a defiant wall of blue.

In Signal Hill, the mood among a handful of day laborers who were posted up on a patch of grass near a Home Depot on Tuesday afternoon was jovial and almost defiant.

His defiant attitude, visibility, and growing influence had drawn the attention of Punjab's most feared gangsters.

As accusations mounted, Do claimed he was the victim of slander, responding with defiant vitriol against the reporter who broke the story, Nick Gerda, and demanding his firing.