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.

@WI_cricfan



who write that? sarge ghost writer rote such?

CNN has reach out to the White House 

@Halliwell

So the Dotard wants to install his own Ayatollah???

HAHAHAHA!!

I wonder what all those Iranians in the West who took to the streets and marched in praise for the war and for democracy in Iran heaping adulation on the child rapist Dotard, are thinking now?

@SnoopDog

Shah son in US been assembling cabinet since Sunday…sudden din believe me

Iranians hated the Ayaflyertollah

so they will support ‘anyone’ short term… ignoring the long term

he has public support overwhelmingly and will hope Israel finishes off those remaining revolutionary guard leaders…

in 10 years the next generation will want to ‘reclaim’ their country and the wheel turn again

@Halliwell

The Shah son will soon find out he is as useful to the Dotard as Maria Corina Machado. Unless of course he finds a bigger plane to give to the Dotard than the one Qatar bribed him with.