Qalibaf: Iranian nation will defeat US plots to sow internal division 

Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf says the Iranian nation will once again defeat US plots aimed at sowing division in the country through unity and faith.

In an audio message addressed to the nation on Wednesday, Qalibaf said the only definitive solution to counter the enemy’s plots is to “preserve national unity.”

He noted that solidarity among the people has historically been the cornerstone of the Iranian nation’s ability to overcome challenges and still remains the most essential factor in doing so as “the enemy has now entered a new phase of aggression.”

Without “the cohesive and proactive presence of the people,” Qalibaf said, no achievements would have been possible in the face of the joint US-Israeli aggression.

Qalibaf, however, said that Iran’s adversaries have now entered a new phase of confrontation.

Through the so-called naval blockade of Iranian ports and psychological media warfare, he said Washington “attempts to weaponize economic pressure and sow internal division, hoping to weaken the nation from within or even trigger its collapse.”

Qalibaf further said that US President Donald Trump “clearly attempts to polarize the country by categorizing Iranians into ‘hardliners’ and ‘moderates.’”

This rhetoric, he said, was immediately followed by Washington’s threat of a naval blockade aimed at coercing Iran into submission through intensified economic pressure and domestic instability.

“Each and every one of these plots could have brought a nation to its knees, but the Iranian people, by the grace of God, have managed to overcome them one by one,” he said.

The Parliament speaker also reiterated that the country’s military forces and officials are “in total unity” under the command of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei.

Trump has recently claimed that Tehran is experiencing intense internal conflict between “hardliners”—whom he described as “losing badly on the battlefield”—and “moderates,” who are “not very moderate” but “gaining respect.”

Iranian authorities, however, have dismissed his allegations, saying all citizens in Iran identify as “Iranians” and “revolutionaries.”

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