AFTER the US president doubled down on his claims of a rift in the Iranian leadership, Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said the nation was united under the leadership of its supreme leader.

In a statement posted on X, President Pezeshkian said there was no binary of “hardliners or moderates” in Iran as claimed by the US president.

“We are all Iranians and revolutionaries. With ironclad unity of nation and state and obedience to the Supreme Leader, we will make the aggressor regret. One God, one nation, one leader, one path; victory for Iran, dearer than life.”

Iran’s parliament speaker Bagher Ghalibaf, who led the negotiation team in Islamabad, posted the same tweet on his account.

Their response came to President Donald Trump’s post on Truth Social, wherein he alleged there was infighting in the Iranian government.

“Iran is having a very hard time figuring out who their leader is! They just don’t know! The infighting is between the “Hardliners,” who have been losing BADLY on the battlefield, and the “Moderates,” who are not very moderate at all (but gaining respect!), is CRAZY!”

This claim followed similar allegations days earlier when President Trump, while extending the ceasefire, said that the Iranian leadership was fractured and he was giving them time to come up with a unified proposal by extending the ceasefire.

Published in Dawn, April 24th, 2026