Trump Reacts to New Supreme Leader: "He's not going to last long."
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Jay Sekulow
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🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
President Donald Trump has condemned Iran's election of Mojtaba Khamenei as its new Supreme Leader (succeeding Ayatollah Ali Khamenei). Trump asserted, "He's going to have to get approval from us. . . If he doesn't get approval from us, he's not going to last long." The Sekulow team discusses the choice of Iran's Assembly of Experts, U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, the ACLJ's legal work – and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Seculo, President Trump reacts to Iran's new supreme leader saying, |
| 0:06.7 | he's not going to last long. |
| 0:09.6 | Keeping you informed and engaged. |
| 0:12.2 | Now more than ever. |
| 0:13.9 | This is Seculo. |
| 0:17.8 | We want to hear from you. |
| 0:20.1 | Share and post your comments. |
| 0:21.5 | Recall, 1-800-684-3-1-1-0. |
| 0:27.2 | And now your host. |
| 0:29.3 | Welcome to Seculo. |
| 0:30.6 | I'm Will Haynes. |
| 0:31.6 | I'll be joined momentarily by Jordan Seculo, |
| 0:34.5 | and we have a packed show for you today. I want to hear from you at 1-800-6-84-3-1-1-0 |
| 0:42.1 | to join the conversation. And what we saw over the weekend was that the Iranian |
| 0:48.2 | Council of Experts decided to move forward and pick their new Supreme Leader. The Supreme Leader is someone |
| 0:56.5 | that was talked about. This was the son of the now deceased Ayatollah. And we know his name is |
| 1:03.8 | Moshtaba Kamine. He's 56 years old, the son of Ali Kaminei and was very close to the IRGC. What does this tell us? It tells us that |
| 1:14.5 | the Iranians are doubling down, that they are showing, trying to show the world, that they are |
| 1:19.9 | not planning on going anywhere. Meanwhile, the U.S. stepped up the bombings in what we saw over the weekend, |
| 1:26.6 | hitting places like oil refineries |
| 1:28.4 | and making it a lot more painful on the Iranian regime as they try to hang on. |
| 1:34.3 | We're going to break all this down, talk about what it means. |
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