Trump says he fears Iran’s next leader could be ‘as bad as the previous person’
US president suggests worst-case result of ayatollah’s assassination would be regime change that fails to relieve Iran’s repressionDonald Trump said his biggest fear in the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran would be regime change that brought in leadership “as bad as the previous...
<p>US president suggests worst-case result of ayatollah’s assassination would be regime change that fails to relieve Iran’s repression</p><p>Donald Trump said his biggest fear in the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran would be regime change that brought in leadership “as bad as the previous person”.</p><p>At an Oval Office news conference with the visiting German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, the US president was asked by a reporter about the “worst-case scenario” of the risky operation that led to the assassination on Saturday of Iran’s supreme leader, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ayatollah-ali-khamenei">Ayatollah Ali Khamenei</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/03/trump-says-he-fears-irans-next-leader-could-be-as-bad-as-the-previous-person">Continue reading...</a>
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