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Trump says next Iranian leader won't 'last long' without US approval

Mar 8, 2026, 15:35 GMT+0

President Donald Trump said Iran’s next leader would not “last long” without the approval of the United States.

“He’s going to have to get approval from us,” Trump told ABC News. “If he doesn’t get approval from us he’s not going to last long. We want to make sure that we don’t have to go back every 10 years, when you don’t have a president like me that’s not going to do it.”

“I don’t want people to have to go back in five years and have to do the same thing again, or worse let them have a nuclear weapon,” he added.

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