“People we had in mind are dead”: Trump admits US preferred successors to ayatollah were killed
Trump acknowledged that most U.S.-backed Iranian successor candidates have been killed, complicating regime-change efforts as the operation is expected to last three to four weeks.
- On Tuesday, President Donald Trump told reporters `most of the people we had in mind are dead.`
- Donald Trump's regime-change effort in Iran has gone pear-shaped, and at the White House press event, he warned the attack could be futile if a similarly bad successor takes over.
- The White House said Trump expects the operation to last three to four weeks, and Pete Hegseth, Defense Secretary, said earlier this week the U.S. has no plans for a prolonged conflict with Iran.
- He warned a 'third wave' of leaders is coming, saying `we're not gonna know anybody`, highlighting leadership uncertainty as Trump's Cabinet dismissed comparisons between Operation Epic Fury and past wars.
- The president said his administration's preferred successors to the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei were killed in recent airstrikes on Iran, and officials cited reports they may be dead also.
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Speaking Tuesday about his war on Iran, Donald Trump got too candid. He declared that the worst-case scenario could involve people running Iran who are just as bad as those he’s deposing. He also admitted that most of the people the United States hoped will take over are now “dead,” and visibly had no idea what will happen next. …
Trump makes new Iran war admission over preferred successors to Ayatollah Khamenei
"People we had in mind are dead": Trump admits US preferred successors to ayatollah were killed
Donald Trump‘s plans for regime change in Iran have gone pear-shaped. The president told reporters on Tuesday that his administration’s preferred successors to the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei were killed in recent airstrikes on Iran. In a press conference at the White House, Trump openly worried that the attack on Iran would be for naught. “The worst case would be we do this and then somebody takes over who’s as bad as the…
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the officials that the U.S. had considered as possible new leaders of Iran had died in the U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign, and claimed that the worst result would be that whoever took control of the country could be "as bad" as its predecessors. In statements to journalists at the beginning of a meeting in the White House with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Trump stated that Iran was about to attack its…
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