
US President Donald Trump on Friday claimed that Iran’s leadership had collapsed and its military severely weakened by extensive US operations, while asserting that Tehran was “begging” to negotiate, in remarks at the Future Investment Initiative Priority Summit in Miami.
Speaking at the summit, Trump referred to the killing of Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei in strikes on February 28 and claimed that Tehran’s leadership structure had collapsed, while questioning the status of his son and successor, Mojtaba Khamenei, who has not been seen publicly since being named to the post.