New Delhi, July 19 -- Iran is reportedly fighting a dual battle: One is on the frontline with the United States as the fragile ceasefire, signed last month, collapsed; and another is an internal battle as hardliners are now warning of a 'coup'.

Iran's top leadership, including President Masoud Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, has been facing growing dissent as it negotiated a ceasefire with the US, with many Iranians accusing Araghchi of being a "traitorous sellout."

CNN reported on Friday that, when Iranians gathered to bury their slain former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei earlier this month, some of the black-clad mourners surrounding the country's President Masoud Pezeshkian, who was walking alongside Khamenei'...