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"iron hand" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a person's strict and uncompromising rule or control of a situation. For example, "The dictator enforced his iron hand throughout the country."
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iron hand
noun
Firmess, inflexibility, sternness.
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With an iron hand?
And she still governs with an iron hand.
He has long ruled with an iron hand.
Autocratic rule was governance with an iron hand.
We have to have a ruler with an iron hand".
The new arrivals rule their children with an iron hand.
He dispatched inspectors across half of the country to make sure local governments acted with an "iron hand".In some places the iron hand has been heavy indeed.
The iron hand of Moscow only encouraged secessionists; that, he believed, was the lesson of Chechnya.
Closing hours for clubs and pubs are enforced with an iron hand.
The guise is populism; the goal is "an iron hand in the White House".
"Jagger ensured the Stones' longevity by managing their business affairs with an iron hand," he said.
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