US President Donald Trump has told aides he would support eliminating Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei if Tehran refuses Washington’s demands, including ending its nuclear program, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, March 9.
The newspaper cited several current and former US officials who said the Trump administration believes Mojtaba Khamenei is likely to continue the hardline policies of his father, former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and is unlikely to compromise with the West.
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According to the report, officials have discussed the possibility that Israel could carry out such an operation.
The White House has not officially commented on the report. Analysts warn that such a scenario could sharply escalate tensions between the United States and Iran and deepen the conflict in the Middle East.
Iran’s Assembly of Experts recently selected Mojtaba Khamenei as the country’s new supreme leader following the death of his father.
Born in Mashhad in 1969, Mojtaba Khamenei is the second son of Ali Khamenei and for years remained a relatively little-known figure in Iranian politics, rarely appearing in public.
During the 1980s Iran-Iraq war he served in the Habib Battalion of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, where he established close ties with members of Iran’s security elite who today hold influential positions within the state.
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