Breaking: Iran’s next supreme leader won’t ‘last long’ without my approval, Trump says

As the Iranians get closer to naming their next supreme leader, President Donald Trump said Sunday the new leader “is not going to last long” if the Iranians don’t get his approval first.

“He’s going to have to get approval from us,” the president 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.”

He added, “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.”

When asked if he would be willing to approve someone with ties to the old regime, Trump replied, “I would, in order to choose a good leader I would, yeah, I would. There are numerous people that could qualify.”

Seeming to offer yet another justification for this war, Trump said Iran was planning to take over the entire Middle East, and suggested he stopped them from doing so.

“They are a paper tiger. They weren’t a paper tiger a week ago, I’ll tell you. And they were going to attack,” he said. “Their plan was to attack the entire Middle East, to take over the entire Middle East.”