Mumbai, April 2 -- The Consulate General of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Mumbai on Thursday slammed US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth over his reiterating US President Donald Trump's remark during the latter's address to the nation, where he stated that Iran would be hit so hard that it would go "back to the Stone Age".

In a post on X, sharing a screengrab of Hegseth's "stone age" remark, the Iranian consulate questioned Washington's agenda over their military action against the Islamic Republic, noting that earlier the stance was to make Iran "Great Again", which now shifted.

The consulate further stated that civilisations that originated since the Achaemenid Empire back in 550 BC, are already great.

"They said Iran needed to be 'Gr...