‘Khamenei’s son is a lightweight’: Trump to sign off on appointment of new leader for Iran

Iran’s longtime leader, Ali Khamenei, for years pushed an ideology of death to “little Satan” Israel and “great Satan” America.

He was unrelenting in his demands he had the right to have nuclear weapons, and would, ultimately, obtain them.

Iranians, in fact, had been accused of plotting to assassinate Trump.

That all changed in, literally, one second at the outset of the “Operation Epic Fury” campaign that was launched by the two targets of Iran to make sure the rogue regime doesn’t obtain nuclear weapons and ceased the threaten the two democracies: An explosion hit Khamenei’s location and he was no more.

So the nation that for centuries was known as Persia is trying to set up a successor, and officials have suggested Khamenei’s son, who has links to the terror groups that his father used to keep power.

It won’t happen, President Donald Trump said.

“They are wasting their time. Khamenei’s son is a lightweight. I have to be involved in the appointment, like with Delcy [Rodriguez] in Venezuela,” Trump said in a statement to Axios.

It came after there were reports the dead ayatollah’s son, Mojtaba, was the front-runner in succession.

“[Ali] Khamenei’s son is unacceptable to me. We want someone that will bring harmony and peace to Iran,” Trump said.

A report in the Daily Mail confirmed Trump’s concern there would be war again within five years if “the heir” takes over power.

The report described the son as “a hardliner with close ties to Iran’s elite ⁠Revolutionary Guards paramilitary force and one of the most influential figures in the clerical establishment.”

Iran has not made a formal succession announcement, but Iran’s extremists, while hit hard, still are present, would be unlikely to accept any U.S. involvement in that decision.

The Daily Mail said, “The assassinated ayatollah held a status akin to the pope, and the religious and ideological stakes surrounding his succession are far more complex than the ousting of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela. Maduro’s capture went off without a hitch and without U.S. casualties, with indications of pre-arrangement among factions within his own Chavista regime.”

Maduro’s replacement, Rodriguez, “has since spoken with Trump and agreed to ship millions of barrels of oil to the US. Iran, by contrast, has shown no such appetite for accommodation, pressing on with a relentless bombing campaign against Israel, Arab states and American bases across the region,” the report confirmed.