Trump says he must "be involved in the appointment" of Iran’s next leader, calls Khamenei’s son “unacceptable”
By: Alejandra Jaramillo/CNN
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
President Donald Trump said Thursday he must be “involved in the appointment” of Iran’s next leader, dismissing the prospect of Mojtaba Khamenei succeeding his father, the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
“They are wasting their time. Khamenei’s son is a lightweight. I have to be involved in the appointment, like with Delcy in Venezuela,” Trump told Axios , referring to Venezuela’s Delcy Rodríguez, who took over after the US captured Nicolás Maduro.
Trump said he would not accept a successor who continues the policies of Iran’s former supreme leader.
“Khamenei’s son is unacceptable to me. We want someone that will bring harmony and peace to Iran,” Trump said, warning that installing a leader who follows the same path could force the United States back to war “in five years.”
His comments came just one day after the White House suggested that regime change in Iran was not the primary objective of the president’s military campaign.
CNN has reach out to the White House for comment.
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Trump wants to make sure Iran has a compliant dictator.
Whats he going to do if he is not personally involved, bomb them ?
When I first read a few sentences of this I thought it was satire.
A puppet regime, with massa Trump living stateside. UNLESS he feels he will be deported if the Dems take the House / Senate or at the next presidential election.