{"id":68447,"date":"2026-03-08T14:56:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/trump-warns-irans-new-leader-wont-last-long-without-his-approval\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T14:56:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:56:50","slug":"trump-warns-irans-new-leader-wont-last-long-without-his-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/trump-warns-irans-new-leader-wont-last-long-without-his-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump warns Iran\u2019s new leader won\u2019t \u2018last long\u2019 without his approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> said Sunday that Iran\u2019s new leader is &#8220;not going to last long&#8221; without U.S. approval as Operation Epic Fury continues into its second week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He\u2019s going to have to get approval from us,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/Politics\/irans-supreme-leader-long-approval-trump\/story?id=130878307\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><u>Trump told ABC News<\/u><\/a> in an interview. &#8220;If he doesn\u2019t get approval from us he\u2019s not going to last long. We want to make sure that we don\u2019t have to go back every 10 years, when you don\u2019t have a president like me that\u2019s not going to do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t 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,&#8221; the president continued.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s comments come after Iranian state media reported that a majority consensus had been reached on a new supreme leader following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/irans-supreme-leader-ali-khamenei-dead-after-idf-strike-hits-tehran-compound-israeli-source-confirms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Feb. 28 assassination of Ayatollah<\/a> Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/iranian-senior-clerics-exposed-after-strike-qom-khamenai-succession-choice-looms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>IRAN&#8217;S SENIOR CLERICS \u2018EXPOSED\u2019 AFTER BUILDING STRIKE IN QOM, SUCCESSION CHOICE LOOMS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mohammadmehdi Mirbaqeri, who serves on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/conflicts\/iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iran\u2019s Assembly of Experts<\/a>, the clerical body tasked with selecting the supreme leader, did not offer any names but acknowledged to the Mehr News Agency that there are still &#8220;some obstacles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ABC News reported that Trump said it\u2019s possible he would be in favor of someone with ties to the old regime.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would, in order to choose a good leader I would, yeah, I would. There are numerous people that could qualify,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/israel-hammers-iranian-internal-security-command-centers-open-door-uprising\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>ISRAEL HAMMERS IRANIAN INTERNAL SECURITY COMMAND CENTERS TO OPEN DOOR TO UPRISING<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-israel-us-war-khamenei-successor-supreme-leader-f7b8be4a356b449b591492ff9d57661c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><u>The Associated Press reported<\/u><\/a> that several figures are being viewed as potential successors to Iran\u2019s supreme leadership. They include:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/iran-postpones-tehran-farewell-ceremony-khamenei-where-crowds-were-expected-gather\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>IRAN POSTPONES TEHRAN FAREWELL CEREMONY FOR KHAMENEI WHERE LARGE CROWDS WERE EXPECTED TO GATHER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s Defense Minister Israel Katz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/iran-postpones-tehran-farewell-ceremony-khamenei-where-crowds-were-expected-gather\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><u>warned Iranian leadership<\/u><\/a> in a post on X last week that any successor who tries to &#8220;destroy Israel, to threaten the United States and the free world and the countries of the region, and to suppress the Iranian people&#8221; will be an &#8220;unequivocal target for elimination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It does not matter what his name is or the place where he hides,&#8221; Katz said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump said Sunday that Iran\u2019s new leader is &#8220;not going to last long&#8221; without U.S. approval as Operation Epic Fury continues into its second week. &#8220;He\u2019s going to have to get approval from us,&#8221; Trump told ABC News in an interview. &#8220;If he doesn\u2019t get approval from us he\u2019s not going to last &#8230; <a title=\"Trump warns Iran\u2019s new leader won\u2019t \u2018last long\u2019 without his approval\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/trump-warns-irans-new-leader-wont-last-long-without-his-approval\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump warns Iran\u2019s new leader won\u2019t \u2018last long\u2019 without his approval\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}