{"id":114737,"date":"2026-05-15T05:19:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T05:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/114737\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T05:19:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T05:19:17","slug":"live-trump-looks-to-xi-as-hormuz-pressure-builds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/114737\/","title":{"rendered":"Live &#8211; Trump looks to Xi as Hormuz pressure builds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"CustomPortableTextComponents-module-scss-module__peBeZa__paragraph\">Tehran commentariat and figures close to the establishment are increasingly accusing hardliners and state television of deepening divisions and undermining national unity as the country faces war, economic strain and growing public anxiety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"CustomPortableTextComponents-module-scss-module__peBeZa__paragraph\">The US-Israeli attacks on Iran and the ensuing regional conflagration have aggravated economic troubles to the point that President Masoud Pezeshkian has warned of widespread unrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"CustomPortableTextComponents-module-scss-module__peBeZa__paragraph\">Media close to Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who has sought to position himself as a pragmatist since the death of former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, have been among the most vocal critics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"CustomPortableTextComponents-module-scss-module__peBeZa__paragraph\">On Thursday, Khorasan newspaper, one of the outlets closest to Ghalibaf, blasted the state broadcaster and several ultraconservative lawmakers for promoting rhetoric that risked \u201cdeepening divisions and polarizing the public\u201d at a time of war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"CustomPortableTextComponents-module-scss-module__peBeZa__paragraph\">Read the full article <a class=\"InternalArticleLink-module-scss-module__ySLvSW__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202605144331\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/957ba557e2695444d0209a4d69695f76889db1ce-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"State TV emerges as battleground in Iran\u2019s wartime infighting\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin:0 auto\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778822357_736_957ba557e2695444d0209a4d69695f76889db1ce-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"State TV emerges as battleground in Iran\u2019s wartime infighting\" class=\"ImageZoom-module-scss-module__AqPnHG__zoomedImage\" style=\"transform:translate(0px, 0px) scale(1);transition:transform 0.15s ease\" draggable=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<p>100%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tehran commentariat and figures close to the establishment are increasingly accusing hardliners and state television of deepening divisions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,67,63,60,61,64,58,62,59,65,49,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-114737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-iran","9":"tag-iran-and-china","10":"tag-iran-covid","11":"tag-iran-economy","12":"tag-iran-government","13":"tag-iran-media-iran-and-the-united-states","14":"tag-iran-news","15":"tag-iran-nuclear","16":"tag-iran-politics","17":"tag-iran-us","18":"tag-middle-east","19":"tag-us-sanctions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116576909010377067","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}