
US President Donald Trump said that he may have exaggerated in eliminating multiple levels of Iranian leaders, noting the difficulty of determining who to negotiate with after targeting first-, second- and third-level leaders, while Mojtaba Khamenei secretly assumed leadership of Iran after a supposed injury.
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After the killing of Ali Khamenei, his son Mojtaba Khamenei secretly assumed leadership of Iran, while decrees were issued in his name in August to restructure the security leadership.
(CNN) - US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he “may have exaggerated” in “eliminating multiple levels of Iranian leaders,” noting that the United States is now facing difficulty in determining who it can negotiate with.
Trump added during a rally in Bullhead, Arizona: “Maybe I exaggerated it. I don’t know who the hell to deal with; their first-level leaders were eliminated, they chose second-level leaders, then their second-level leaders were eliminated, and they chose third-level leaders, and half of them are gone.”
According to Iranian officials, Mojtaba Khamenei - the son of the late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei - has assumed leadership of the country since the killing of his father, but he has not appeared in public since he was reportedly injured in one of the strikes.
In August, decrees were issued in Khamenei's name to restructure Iran's security leadership.
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