Iran live updates: Witkoff, Kushner to travel to Islamabad Saturday for peace talks

The commander in chief of Iran's Army General Amir Hatami reiterated unity among the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran in a post on X on Friday, following President Donald Trump alleging a rift among Iranian leaders.

Hatami said all branches of power are united and "obedient" to the Supreme Leader, adding that they "will make the criminal aggressor regret."

"One God, one Leader, one Nation, one Path, and that is the path to the victory of dear Iran that is more precious than life," Hatami wrote.

In a separate note, commanders of the IRGC Navy and IRGC Aerospace Forces issued a joint message of unity on Thursday evening, saying the unity of the Islamic Republic leaders supports the armed forces as they prepare to fight.

Other top authorities of the country, including President Masoud Pezeshkian and parliament speaker and lead negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, shared similar post emphasizing unity among leaders on their X accounts.

These posts seem to be a response to President Trump's post on Truth Social on Thursday, where he wrote there is infighting among the Iranian "hardliner" and "moderate" leaders.

-ABC News' Somayeh Malekian

The Israel Defense Forces said that three members of Hezbollah were killed after "unsuccessfully launching a surface-to-air missile toward an IAF aircraft."

"These actions constitute blatant violations of the ceasefire understandings," the IDF said in a statement on X early Friday.

Elsewhere, in two separate incidents, the IDF said that members of Hezbollah also "launched rockets and an explosive UAV toward IDF soldiers operating south of the Forward Defense Line in southern Lebanon."

President Donald Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday that he is not facing any "time pressure" to secure a deal with Iran.

When asked how long he was willing to wait, Trump responded, "Don't rush me."

"I don't want to rush myself, you know, because every story says, 'Oh, Trump is under time pressure.' I'm not. No, no," Trump said. "You know who's under time pressure? They are. Because if they don't get their oil moving, their whole oil infrastructure is going to explode. You know what that means, because they have no place to store it."

As for how long Americans should expect to pay higher gas prices, Trump said, "For a little while."

Pope Leo XIV is urging the United States and Iran to return to talks to end the war.

In a wide-ranging news conference Thursday on his way home from his trip to Africa, he also condemned capital punishment.

Leo also asserted that countries have the right to control their borders but mustn't treat migrants worse than "animals," and lamented that the church's morality teaching had been reduced to sex.

Leo was leaving after an 11-day, four-nation voyage that took him from Algeria in the north of Africa to Angola in the south and Cameroon in-between.

It was a newsy papal trip because of the extraordinary back and forth with U.S. President Donald Trump over the Iran war.