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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
John Bowden

Trump admits ‘worst case’ in Iran strikes could see new leader ‘as bad or worse than the ayatollah’

Donald Trump offered little in the way of an optimistic view of Iran’s future on Monday during a bilateral meeting with German Chanceller Friedrich Merz at the White House.

Speaking with reporters in the Oval Office, the president took his first extended Q&A on the military campaign launched by the U.S. on Saturday morning. Those strikes, carred out jointly with the Israeli armed forces, are now confirmed to have killed Iran’s supreme leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei.

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