ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - Iranian officials on Thursday claimed that Iran is united more than ever after US President Donald Trump said there is an internal power struggle and that the country is “having a very hard time figuring out who their leader is” earlier in the day.

Earlier the same day, US President Donald Trump said that “Iran is having a very hard time figuring out who their leader is,” adding that there is an internal power struggle between ‘hardliners’ and ‘moderates,’” the latter of whom he said are "not very moderate at all (but gaining respect!).”

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that the “battlefield and diplomacy are fully coordinated fronts in the same war,” adding: “Iranians are all united, more than ever before.”

Myriad top Iranian officials, including the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, were killed during the US-Israeli military campaign that commenced in February, disrupting the balance of power in the Islamic Republic and positioning Khamenei's son, Mojtaba Khamenei, as the new figurehead of the Iranian government.

“In Iran, there are no radicals or moderates; We are all ‘Iranian’ and ‘revolutionary,’ and with the iron unity of the nation and government, with complete obedience to the Supreme Leader of the Revolution, we will make the aggressor criminal regret his actions,” Parliament Speaker and top negotiator Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf wrote in an X post almost identical to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.

“One God, one leader, one nation, and one path; that path being the path to victory for Iran, dearer than life,” they added.

The junior Khamenei, however, has yet to make a public appearance since his father's death, giving rise to speculation that he was severely wounded in the same strike and raising doubts regarding his effective control over the country's affairs.

On April 1, Trump said that the US was talking to Iran's "new regime president" regarding the prospect of a ceasefire, which was later realized. No clarification was even given of whom the US president was referring to.

During the conflict with the US and Israel, the decentralized nature of Iran's defensive strategy reportedly gave rise to localized commands effectuating tactical decisions that were not necessarily in keeping with the central government's strategy at the time.

Indeed, rifts became apparent where media linked with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) criticized Araghchi for announcing that the Strait of Hormuz was open for passage, with the measure swiftly being reversed as Tehran maintains a stranglehold on the economically vital waterway.