Trump slams Mojtaba Khamenei’s appointment as Iran projects defiance
Al Jazeera
US president, who had warned against selecting Mojtaba Khamenei to lead Iran, says new supreme leader may not ‘last’.
Donald Trump says he is “not happy” with the selection of Mojtaba Khamenei as Iran’s new supreme leader.
The United States president had warned repeatedly against electing the son of assassinated Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to lead the country as the US-Israeli conflict with Iran intensified.
“I’m not going through this to end up with another Khamenei. I want to be involved in the selection,” Trump told Time magazine on Friday.
Two days later, Iran’s Assembly of Experts did exactly that – it replaced the slain Khamenei with his 56-year-old son.
The decision was a show of defiance against the US president, who had been stressing for days that Iran would follow the path of Venezuela in selecting a leader willing to answer Washington’s demands.
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