President Donald Trump said that Iran’s top leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is involved in peace talks with the United States but that he suffered injuries during an airstrike earlier this year.
“He’s involved, absolutely. Yeah, I think they have a lot of respect for him,” Trump told The New York Post’s “Pod Force One” in an interview, referring to Khamenei, who has not been seen in public since he was named to the top Iranian leadership position after his father, Ali Khamenei, was killed in U.S.–Israeli airstrikes in February.
He added in the interview, which aired June 3, that “they say he’s giving approval because that’s the way it has been for a long, long time … his father and then him, I guess it’s a succession. But we seem to be getting along quite well.”…
Trump Says Iran’s Top Leader Is Engaged in Peace Talks
