RFE
23 Jun 2025, 18:48 GMT+10
US President Donald Trumpsuggestedhe might welcome the toppling of Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei despite members of his administration insisting that US attacks on the country's nuclear facilities over the weekend were not intended to bring aboutregime change."
Israel allegedly pushed a plan to kill Khamenei, only to have Trump reject the move. Soon after, however, the US president called Iran's 86-year-old Supreme Leader "an easy target" who "we are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now.
In the face of all this, reports say Khamenei has already accelerated the hunt for his successor in response to Israel launching large-scale air attacks on June 13.
Below is an RFE/RL infographic explaining how Iran's levers of power operate.
Interactive: This Is How Iran Is Ruled
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Is Military Intervention In Iran A Viable Path To Regime Change?
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