Trump is not pushing for a democratic Iran and “doesn't mind the religious leaders.” Conditions set by the US President

“Iran is not the same country it was a week ago,” US President Donald Trump said Friday in a brief telephone interview with CNN, in which he said the leadership in Tehran had been “neutralized” and that he wanted an administration there that would treat the United States and Israel well, even if he is still a religious leader and the state is not a democracy.

Trump claims that he must also be involved in the process of choosing a new leader and that it “will work very easily”. The US leader compared the situation to the mission in Venezuela, where the US intervened this year to capture Nicolas Maduro and bring him to US justice.

“It's going to work very easily. It's going to work like it worked in Venezuela. We have a wonderful leader there. He's doing a fantastic job (Interim President Delcy Rodriguez, no). And it's going to work like in Venezuela,” he said.

“I deal with a lot of religious leaders and they are fantastic”

The US president said he was open to the idea of ​​having a religious leader run Iran going forward.

“Well, I might be, yeah, I mean it depends on who that person is. I don't mind religious leaders. I deal with a lot of religious leaders and they're fantastic,” Donald Trump added.

Pressed to say whether he insists Iran must be a democratic state, he replied: “No, I say there must be a leader who is fair and just. Do a great job. Treat the United States and Israel well, and the other countries in the Middle East — they're all our partners.”

Trump went on to praise the relationship with the other countries in the Middle East.

“I became very close to all those countries. That's why they're all fighting for us now. Before I got involved, I wasn't even talking to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. You know, Biden kept them at bay. Biden and Obama kept Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar at bay — they kept them all at bay. They were all on the verge of heading to China, and I got involved, and in a very short time, they became my friends,” the leader said. american.

Also on Friday, in a post on Truth Social, Trump had said that “there will be no deal with Iran unless there is an unconditional surrender.”