With U.S.-Iran end-of-war talks shrouded in fog, Iran's leadership has issued back-to-back messages urging internal unity.
On the 23rd (local time), according to Iran's state-run IRNA news agency, Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, said, "Cracks have appeared within the enemy because of the remarkable unity formed among the Iranian people," adding, "Iran's cohesion has become more powerful and as solid as steel. Through this process, the enemies will ultimately suffer humiliation and disgrace."
He continued, "The enemy's media operation has a clear intent to undermine internal unity and shake national security by directly striking the public's psyche," adding, "We must never allow such malicious intent to be realized due to carelessness and complacency." Mojtaba has not appeared in public since being selected as supreme leader.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian also wrote on X (formerly Twitter) the same day, "There are no hard-liners or moderates in Iran. We are all Iranians and revolutionaries," adding, "Through the ironclad unity of the people and the government and absolute obedience to the revolutionary supreme leader, we will make the criminal forces that commit aggression bitterly regret it."
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi likewise wrote on X that "the failure of Israel's terrorist-like killings reflects how united Iran's state institutions are, operating under clear goals and strict discipline," adding, "The battlefield and diplomacy are two fronts perfectly coordinated within a single war," and emphasizing, "The Iranian people are united as one more powerfully than ever."