No ‘radicals’ or ‘moderates’ in Iranian leadership, Ghalibaf responds to Trump

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Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf claimed Iranian unity on Thursday, firing back at President Donald Trump‘s assertion that the Iranians are “having a very hard time figuring out who their leader is.”

Ghalibaf said in a statement that “there are no radicals or moderates” in Iran, referring to a statement from Trump earlier in the day in which the U.S. president said there has been infighting between Iranian “hardliners” and “moderates.”

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