唐纳德·特朗普总统表示，他对伊朗新最高领袖的人选”不高兴”，但”史诗狂怒”行动的早期结果”远超预期”。
已故阿亚图拉阿里·哈梅内伊的儿子穆贾塔巴·哈梅内伊已被任命为下一任最高领袖。
“我认为他无法安宁度日，”特朗普在接受福克斯新闻首席外事记者特雷·英格斯采访时表示。
总统吹嘘了他所说的美以联合军事行动的成功。
“就结果而言，这么早就远超预期，”特朗普说。
美国中央司令部（CENTCOM）周一宣布，自2月28日行动启动以来，美军已打击了5000多个目标。
“当我们首先攻击他们时，我们摧毁了他们50%的导弹，如果我们不这样做，战斗将会艰难得多，”特朗普说。
他将首次打击描述为决定性且必要的。
“没有其他总统有胆量这样做…我不希望某个总统在五年或十年内没有勇气采取行动。这就像一个枪手，他先拔枪。”
“如果我们等了三天，我相信我们会遭到攻击。”
特朗普描述了他所谓的行动时机的意外因素。
“早餐时发动攻击很不寻常，他们被误导了，因为他们认为我们当时不会发动攻击…而且他们都聚在一起了，这非常令人惊讶。”
“如果他们有炸弹，他们会在以色列和中东其他地区使用。我认为，可能也会针对我们，如果他们能做到的话，但这会很艰难。”
特朗普表示，特使史蒂夫·维特科夫和贾里德·库什纳告诉他，伊朗声称拥有足够的浓缩铀来制造11枚核弹。
“我说，你知道，他们这样做并不明智。因为他们基本上是在说我必须攻击他们。他们本应该说，’我们不会制造核导弹。’”
当被问及是否愿意与伊朗领导人对话时，特朗普表示：”我听说他们想恶意交谈。”
“这是可能的，取决于条件，可能…你知道，我们其实不必再交谈了，如果你真的这么想的话，但这是可能的。”
特朗普还表示，他对伊朗针对海湾国家的回应感到惊讶。
“最令我惊讶的事情之一是，他们攻击了没有攻击他们的国家，”他说。
总统还谈到了对一所女子学校的打击报道。伊朗国家媒体和联合国儿童基金会估计死亡人数约为165至180人，其中大部分是年轻女学生，另有数十人受伤。这些数字尚未得到独立核实。
“这只是在调查中，但不是只有我们有这种火箭，”特朗普说。
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President Donald Trump said he is “not happy” with Iran’s choice of a new supreme leader but that early results from Operation Epic Fury have been “way beyond expectation.”
Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been installed as the next supreme leader.
“I don’t believe he can live in peace,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst.
The president touted what he described as the success of the joint U.S.-Israeli military operation.
“Way beyond expectation in terms of result this early,” Trump said.
More than 5,000 targets have been hit by the U.S. military since the operation was launched on Feb. 28, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced Monday.
“When we attacked them first, we knocked out 50% of their missiles and if we didn’t, it would have been a much harder fight,” Trump said.
He framed the opening strike as decisive and necessary.
“No other President had the guts to do it…I don’t want some president who hasn’t got the courage in five years or in ten years to go in. It’s like a gun slinger, where he draws his gun first.”
“If we waited three days, I believe we would have been attacked.”
Trump described what he called a surprise element in the timing of the operation.
“Breakfast attacks are unusual and they were misled because they thought we weren’t going at that time and all that… And they just met. It was very, very surprising. And they all met together and it was open.”
“If they would’ve had a bomb, they’d have used it on Israel and [other parts of the Middle East]. I think, and probably us, if they could get it there, but it would have been tough.”
Trump said Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner told him Iran claimed it had enough enriched uranium to build 11 nuclear bombs.
“I said, you know, they’re not playing this smart. Because they’re basically saying that I have to attack them. They should have just said, ‘We’re not going to build a nuclear missile.’”
Asked whether he would be willing to speak with Iranian leaders, Trump said: “I’m hearing they want to talk badly.”
“It’s possible, depends on what terms, possible, only possible… You know, we sort of don’t have to speak anymore, you know, if you really think about it, but it’s possible.”
Trump also said he was surprised Iran targeted Gulf countries in response to the American and Israeli attacks.
“One of the things that surprised me most was when they attacked countries that were not attacking them,” he said.
The president also weighed in on reports of a strike that hit a girls school. Iranian state media and UNICEF estimates put the death toll at roughly 165 to 180 people, most of them young schoolgirls, with dozens more injured. The figures have not been independently verified.
“It’s only under investigation, but we are not the only ones with that particular rocket,” Trump said.
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