The US president compared the situation to that in Venezuela, where the new leader has cooperated with him after Maduro’s ousting
“Khamenei’s son is unacceptable to me. We want someone that will bring harmony and peace to Iran,” Axios quoted Trump as saying in an interview.
“I have to be involved in the appointment, like with Delcy [Rodriguez] in Venezuela,” Trump said, drawing a comparison to the interim president who has cooperated with him under threat of violence after the US ousted her boss, Nicolas Maduro.
Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Iran’s late Supreme Leader, has survived the US and Israeli air strikes on Iran in which his father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed, Iranian sources said on Wednesday.
A mid-ranking cleric with close ties to Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards, hardliner Mojtaba is one of the most influential figures in the Iranian clerical establishment and is seen as a possible successor to his father.
Additional reporting by Agence France-Presse. More to follow …
