Trump Rejects Mojtaba Khamenei as Potential Successor to Iran's Supreme Leader

US President Donald Trump on Thursday made a big statement on the selection of Iran's next Supreme Leader. He bluntly said that Khamenei's son is not acceptable to him. To choose Iran's next leader, I have to join. "Khamenei's son is not acceptable to me," Axios quoted Trump as saying in an interview. "We want someone who brings peace and harmony to Iran." Trump said, "I have to join the appointment, like Delcy (Rodriguez) did in Venezuela." Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Iran's former Supreme Leader, has survived US and Israeli air strikes on Iran that killed his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Mojtaba, who has close ties to Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, is one of the most influential Iranian clerics in the organization and is seen as a possible successor to his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, after the US invasion of Israel.