Trump says he wants to help pick Iran’s next leader

What happened?

President Donald Trump on Thursday said he needed to be involved in picking the next leader of Iran after Israel assassinated Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in the opening strikes of the U.S.-Israeli war. Mojtaba Khamenei, the slain leader’s 56-year-old son, is widely viewed as the frontrunner as a panel of Iranian clerics votes on a successor. Trump told Axios the younger Khamenei was a “lightweight” and “unacceptable to me.”

Who said what

“I have to be involved in the appointment...