President Donald Trump on Friday said the U.S. would accept no negotiated settlement with Iran short of “unconditional surrender” and repeated his demand for input into the choice of a new supreme leader nearly a week into the joint U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign against the Islamic Republic.
Writing on Truth Social, Trump said there would be “no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER” and called for the selection of a “GREAT [and] ACCEPTABLE” leader or leaders to replace Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed by an Israeli bomb strike at the outset of the nearly week-old war.
