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Iran’s Parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who has emerged as a figurehead since the start of the Middle East war, said on Wednesday that the United States’ naval blockade of the country aimed to create division and “make us collapse from within.”He said US President Donald Trump “divides the country into two groups: hardliners and moderates, and then immediately talks about a naval blockade to force Iran into submission through economic pressure and internal discord,” state TV reported.For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app.With the killing of numerous Iranian leaders by US-Israeli strikes, including supreme leader Ali Khamenei, there has been widespread speculation over the balance of power within Iran.Trump said earlier this month that the government of Iran was “seriously fractured, not unexpectedly so.”Ghalibaf, an influential figure, has grown in prominence since the start of the war and was the lead negotiator in the so far
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