Trump threatens future Supreme Leader of Iran

US leader Donald Trump issued a warning to Iran’s next supreme leader, stating that without US approval, he “is not going to last long.”

"He’s going to have to get approval from us," the president told ABC News. "If he doesn’t get approval from us he’s not going to last long. We want to make sure that we don’t have to go back every 10 years, when you don’t have a president like me that’s not going to do it."

He added, "I don’t want people to have to go back in five years and have to do the same thing again or worse let them have a nuclear weapon."

When asked if he would be willing to approve someone with ties to the old regime, Trump replied, "I would, in order to choose a good leader I would, yeah, I would. There are numerous people that could qualify."

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi responded on March in an interview with NBC News, emphasising that the selection of Iran’s new supreme leader is solely the affair of the Iranian people and that no one else should interfere in this matter.