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Back<\/span><\/p>\n transcript<\/p>\n Well, most of the people we had in mind are dead. And now we have another group. They may be dead also based on reports. So I guess you have a third wave coming in \u2014 pretty soon, we\u2019re not going to know anybody. I guess the worst case would be we do this and then somebody takes over who\u2019s as bad as the previous person. Right, that could happen? We don\u2019t want that to happen. It would probably be the worst. You go through this and then in five years, you realize you put somebody in who is no better. No, I might have forced their hand. You see, we were having negotiations with these lunatics. And it was my opinion that they were going to attack first. So if anything, I might have forced Israel\u2019s hand. If we have a little high oil prices for a little while. But as soon as this ends, those prices are going to drop, I believe, lower than even before.<\/p>\n During a bilateral meeting with Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany, President Trump said that the likely candidates to lead Iran were killed in the U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n By Cynthia Silva and Daniel Fetherston<\/p>\n March 3, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" new video loaded: Trump Says He Doesn\u2019t Know Who Will Be Iran\u2019s Next Leader transcript Back transcript Trump Says He Doesn\u2019t Know Who Will Be Iran\u2019s Next Leader During a bilateral meeting with Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany, President Trump said that the likely candidates to lead Iran were killed in the U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[3037,218,135,81],"class_list":{"0":"post-45759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-doesnt","9":"tag-irans","10":"tag-leader","11":"tag-trump"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Trump Says He Doesn\u2019t Know Who Will Be Iran\u2019s Next Leader<\/h2>\n
During a bilateral meeting with Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany, President Trump said that the likely candidates to lead Iran were killed in the U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign.<\/h4>\n