Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar

Amanpour

CNN

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Top Iranian clerics have picked Mojtaba Khamenei as the country's next Supreme Leader. He is the son of slain leader Ayotallah Ali Khameni and is known for sharing his father's hardline stance. It is a choice that both the US and Israel have said they won't accept. Gideon Sa'ar is Israel's Foreign Minister and he joined the show to react. Also on today's show: CNN's Fred Pleitgen interviews former Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi; Jason Furman, Former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers; Debbie Wei Mullin, Founder, Copper Cow Coffee & Sarah LaFleur, Founder and CEO, M.M. LaFleur Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.7	Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur. Here's what's coming up. It is clear that the hardliners are still calling the shots there in Tehran.
0:43.3	Iran names its next leader, the hardline son of the late Ayatollah Khomeini.
0:48.3	The U.S. calls him an unacceptable choice.
0:51.3	And Israel promises to target any successor picked by the regime. I ask
0:56.1	Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Tsar about Israel's ongoing attacks on Iran and where this conflict
1:01.8	goes next. Then oil prices surge as a drawn-out war in the Middle East looks ever more likely.
1:08.9	Jason Furman, chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisors
1:12.2	under President Obama, joins me. Also ahead. Oftentimes, you know, you have, you have product on
1:18.0	the water and you're not, you have no idea how much that's going to cost when it gets here.
1:22.6	Entrepreneurs Debbie Way-Mullen and Sarah LaFleur tell Michelle Martin about how Trump's tariff whiplash is changing
1:29.7	the calculus for small business in America and could risk squeezing them out entirely. Welcome to the program, everyone, I'm Bianago-Wadriga, New York, sitting in for Christian Ammanpur.
1:57.0	Top of Iranian clerics have picked Mostabha Khomeini as the country's next Supreme Leader.
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