Cohere

Separate molecules will cohere because of electromagnetic force.

Nothing coheres the way you expect. Substances float around each other until you crush them all with a blender.

Members of the party would cohere in the message they were sending.

That dream of beautiful Paris was not likely to cohere into substance in the presence of this misfortune.

A system that degrades but coheres is a far better place to live than a system that completely collapses.

This division suggests that Khamenei is not playing his usual role of cohering the regime during a crisis.