“Thanks to the remarkable unity formed among our compatriots, the enemy has been defeated,” Khamenei writes on X - a platform that is forbidden to the Iranian people.
The statement also claims that the enemy will be “further subdued.”
The post comes after President Donald Trump claimed on social media that Iran was having a “very hard time figuring out who the leader is.” Trump also suggested that there was a divide between Iran’s dogmatic and more moderate elements of the Iranian upper echelons.
Iran's hard-line Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Chief Justice Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, and the more pragmatic President Masoud Pezeshkian have all since issued nearly identical statements aimed at showing unity.
Mojtaba Khamenei succeeded his father Ali Khamenei as supreme leader after the latter was killed in the US-Israeli attack that started the Iran-Iraq war in late February. However, the son has not been seen since and has only issued written statements. According to intelligence reports, he was seriously injured in the attack that killed his father.
