Trump says nobody knows who is running Iran
SPY•Trump said nobody knows who is running Iran, while an Iranian foreign ministry spokesman said Washington knows who its counterpart is. The war has killed thousands and displaced millions, and fuel prices have risen.
1. Trump questions Iran leadership
Trump said Iran’s leaders and their successors were gone and that “nobody knows who the hell is running the country.” Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said Washington knows its counterpart and how Iran’s decision-making system works, adding that contradictory positions and mixed messaging from US officials were the problem.
2. War and fuel prices
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed on the first day of the US-Israeli war, which began on February 28. His son, Mojtaba Khamenei, succeeded him but has not appeared in public since he was injured in the same strike. Iranian strikes targeted Israel and Gulf states hosting US bases; US-Israeli strikes on Iran and Israeli attacks on Lebanon have killed thousands and displaced millions. Fuel prices have risen in response to the war, posing a risk to Trump’s Republican Party ahead of November’s US midterm elections.
