{"id":323606,"date":"2026-03-06T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/trump-demands-to-be-involved-in-picking-irans-new-leader\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T00:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T00:00:09","slug":"trump-demands-to-be-involved-in-picking-irans-new-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/trump-demands-to-be-involved-in-picking-irans-new-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump demands &#8216;to be involved&#8217; in picking Iran&#8217;s new leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/wAtp5bykHso\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Trump demands 'to be involved' in picking Iran's new leader\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wAtp5bykHso\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump said Thursday he must be \u201cinvolved in the appointment\u201d of Iran\u2019s next leader, dismissing the prospect of Mojtaba Khamenei succeeding his father, the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are wasting their time. Khamenei\u2019s son is a lightweight. I have to be involved in the appointment, like with Delcy in Venezuela,\u201d Trump told Axios, referring to Venezuela\u2019s Delcy Rodr\u00edguez, who took over after the US captured Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he would not accept a successor who continues the policies of Iran\u2019s former supreme leader.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 Trump says he must &quot;be involved in the appointment&quot; of Iran&#8217;s next leader<br \/>\n0:27 Barak Ravid of Axios describes his interview with Trump Thursday morning<br \/>\n2:08 CNN correspondent analyzes Trump&#8217;s demands<br \/>\n4:57 What are possible Iranian reactions to Trump&#8217;s statement?<br \/>\n6:35 How do Iran and Venezuela situations differ?<br \/>\n9:16 How is the president making his decisions?<\/p>\n<p>Watch more CNN here: https:\/\/cnn.it\/4kh5RPe<\/p>\n<p>#Iran #Trump #News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump said Thursday he must be \u201cinvolved in the appointment\u201d of Iran\u2019s next leader, dismissing the prospect of Mojtaba Khamenei succeeding his father, the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. \u201cThey are wasting their time. Khamenei\u2019s son is a lightweight. I have to be involved in the appointment, like with Delcy in Venezuela,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":323607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128809],"tags":[129047,128815,129382],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-323606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnn","tag-donald","tag-president","tag-trump"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump demands &#039;to be involved&#039; in picking Iran&#039;s new leader | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Trump demands &#039;to be involved&#039; in picking Iran&#039;s new leader for free, here on News ISC. 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