Divisions among Iran's leaders intensified Wednesday after the United States launched new strikes on Iranian targets and President Donald Trump publicly questioned the durability of a ceasefire, according to The New York Times.

The latest military action has widened a rift between Iranian officials favoring negotiations with Washington and hard-line factions that reject diplomacy.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who has backed engagement with the United States, accused Washington of violating the truce.

"The United States is bullying rivals, creating obstacles and cheating," Pezeshkian said Wednesday.

Hard-line opponents have instead turned their anger toward Pezeshkian and his negotiating team.

At funeral ceremonies this week for slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Pezeshkian was reportedly jostled by hard-line supporters shouting "death to the appeaser," while Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was struck with a rock as demonstrators called for his death, according to videos cited by the newspaper.

The political infighting comes as hostilities between Iran and the United States escalated again.

After Iran's Revolutionary Guard targeted commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. launched strikes on dozens of targets along Iran's southern coast.

Iran responded with ballistic missile and drone attacks against U.S. military bases in Kuwait and Bahrain, before additional American strikes followed Wednesday night.

Two senior Iranian officials told the Times the country's leaders remain divided over whether to pursue renewed conflict or diplomacy, with officials engaged in a "blame game" over the deteriorating situation.

They said Iran nevertheless intends to respond forcefully to any further U.S. attacks.

"What shall be done in response to someone who has no commitment to their own word or signature?" Mehdi Tabatabaie, deputy communications chief for the president's office, wrote on social media in an apparent reference to Trump's comments about the ceasefire.

Yousef Pezeshkian, the president's son and adviser, defended continued engagement with Washington and condemned attacks on Iranian officials by hard-liners, warning that internal divisions had become "a tool for the enemy."