{"id":469391,"date":"2026-05-31T16:25:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T16:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/469391\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T16:25:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T16:25:23","slug":"hardliners-post-sparks-warnings-over-iran-regime-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/469391\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardliner\u2019s post sparks warnings over Iran regime unity"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Islamic Republic<\/a> has warned officials to refrain from making \u201charsh remarks that would disrupt cohesion\u201d after recent comments by the regime\u2019s hardliners were interpreted by some to be a swipe at Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, according to statements made to state and state-affiliated media.<\/p>\n

\u201cCurrently, the official policy of the regime is that no harsh comments that disrupt cohesion should be made in official platforms and places that represent the official policy of the regime,\u201d Ali Zeynivand, the political deputy at the Interior Ministry, told the Iranian Labour News Agency in an article published on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Zeynivand\u2019s comments to ILNA came shortly after hardline Iranian cleric Hamid Rasaei\u2019s Telegram post on Thursday, which referenced the drowned unrighteous son of the biblical figure Noah.<\/p>\n

‘Who Is Worthy of the Position of Leadership?’<\/p>\n

Captioned under the title \u201cWho Is Worthy of the Position of Leadership?\u201d Iran International and the New York Times reported that the post has been interpreted widely as a criticism of Khamenei. Such an interpretation would see Khamenei framed as the wayward son of the deceased Ayatollah Ali Khamenei<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"AA man holds a flag with a picture of late leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, late Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, during a rally in Tehran, Iran, April 29, 2026. (credit: MAJID ASGARIPOUR\/REUTERS)<\/p>\n

\u201cFamilial relations don\u2019t necessarily make for being righteous,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

Rasaei has been a fierce critic of the Iranian Parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf<\/a>, who was endorsed by Khamenei the same day he made the controversial Telegram post.<\/p>\n

Rasaei later denied that his message was intended as a critique of the ayatollah, claiming he was among the first to endorse Khamenei after his father was killed.<\/p>\n

Possible signs of fracture within the regime\u2019s top brass,<\/p>\n

Rasaei\u2019s comments are just the latest in what is some have claimed is signs of fracture within the regime\u2019s top brass, as referenced in Zeynivand\u2019s interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Iranian Broadcasting Corporation itself should be the axis of cohesion, and it is currently the axis. In any case, any move that undermines cohesion in these circumstances is ultimately useless and must be held accountable,\u201d he told ILNA.<\/p>\n

Recent weeks have seen the conservative Khorasan newspaper publish damning articles of the state broadcaster for amplifying rhetoric that risked \u201cdeepening divisions and polarizing the public.\u201d<\/p>\n

As first reported on by Iran International, Iranian hardline MP Ali Khezrian accused Khorasan of \u201cupdating Israel and the United States\u2019 list of potential sites to strike\u201d after the media site published footage of a petrochemical facility in Lorestan Province. Khezrian is the same MP who was reported to have spent hours accusing regime officials of supporting foreign interests during IRIB broadcasts in early May.<\/p>\n

The incidents cited above appear to be only the visible surface of deeper divisions within the Islamic Republic, as reports in recent weeks suggest a widening rift between hardliners and reformists, particularly over the prospect of a potential deal with Washington.<\/p>\n

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian<\/a> last week scolded hardline state television directors for portraying negotiations as a failure and for deepening divisions, the New York Times reported on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Despite the reports, Ben Sabti, an Iran expert and researcher at INSS, explained to The Jerusalem Post it was necessary to approach reports of divisions with \u201csuspicion\u201d as the former ayatollah developed a strategy of creating a fake reformist camp.<\/p>\n

Describing such a strategy as a \u201cpolitical trick,\u201d Sabti shared that there were two main benefits to this strategy. Firstly, it creates the illusion that there are other voices within the regime \u201cand in this case, they can also claim that they are against the radicals and fanatics,\u201d and through creating a feeling of instability necessitating the role of Khamenei.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe instability serves the stability of the leader,\u201d Sabti concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Islamic Republic has warned officials to refrain from making \u201charsh remarks that would disrupt cohesion\u201d after recent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16097,42,87,79845,55,159370,43,3336,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-469391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-ayatollah-ali-khamenei","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-islamic-regime","tag-islamic-republic","tag-mojtaba-khamenei","tag-news","tag-tehran","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}