No One Wants Iran's Top Job, Fears Being Killed By US: Donald Trump

Continuing his claims of stopping eight wars across the regions, US President Donald Trump on Thursday said that he will repeat the same feat in the ongoing crisis in Iran.

Speaking at the NRCC Annual Fundraising Dinner, Trump claimed that nobody is coming forward to take the top position in Iran following the death of its Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, on the fears of getting killed by the US.

"We settled 8 wars. We are winning another one. Nobody has seen anything like what we are doing in the Middle East with Iran. They are negotiating, by the way. They want to make a deal so badly, but they are afraid to say it because they figure they will be killed by their own people. They are also afraid they will be killed by us. There has never been a head of a country who wanted that job less than being the head of Iran," ANI quoted Trump as saying.

Accusing Iran of not honouring the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, a 2015 agreement between Iran and the P5+1 (China, France, Russia, UK, US + Germany) and the EU, US President Donald Trump explained the reason why the US opted out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

"I said we are going to have to do something about Iran because they are going to have a nuclear weapon very soon, and they are crazy. We have to stop them. And I say, well, we are going to take a big hit. We're going to go through this certain route, and we will get right back here, but we have to go and stop them. Every President should have done it. Obama should have done it. Obama gave them the absolute right title and interest, gave everything to Iran. When Bibi Netanyahu came over and begged him not to do it. He gave Iran the right to have a nuclear weapon at the highest level within a very short period of time. I terminated that agreement as soon as I came to office," the US President stated.

He claimed that if that Tehran would have got a nuclear weapon by now if he had continued JCPOA. Soleimani was killed in a targeted drone strike ordered by Trump on 3 January 2020 in Baghdad, Iraq.

The US President called former Iranian major general and commander of the Quds Force an "evil man" and said, "We did many things. Taking out Soleimani was very important. He was an evil man. But that was a big event we took out in my first term. We took out Soleimani, and they never had leadership that could compete with that. He was an evil guy, but he was a real leader, and he was a very tough general. Under our leadership, America is also highly respected again. Perhaps we are now respected like never before. I don't think we have ever been as respected now,"

Meanwhile, Iran has turned down US' proposal to end the war. Speaking to Press TV, an Iranian official with knowledge of the proposal saidm "Iran will end the war when it decides to do so and when its own conditions are met,"

Tehran has reiterated that it will continue its fight against the US and vowed to inflict "heavy blows" till its conditions are fulfilled.