ALBAWABA - United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on March 31 that President of the U.S., Donald Trump, is already in contact with potential leaders of the "upcoming regime in Iran".
Rubio confirmed that Trump is holding discussions with a "new and more rational regime" in Iran. However, he refused to name the people who, according to the Secretary of State, would be the leaders of the new regime in Tehran.
"I'm not going to reveal the identities of these individuals, as doing so could put them in trouble with other parties inside Iran," Rubio said, according to a State Department statement.
Rubio noted that "there are internal divisions happening there, and ultimately, I think if there are people in Iran who are now willing, after everything that has happened, to take a different direction for their country, that's a positive thing."
The US Secretary of State continued: "Ultimately, we have to see if these are the people who will assume power, and if they have the ability to implement what they say. We will test that, and we hope so. There are indeed people speaking to us in a manner we haven't heard from Iranian officials before, and some of what they say and what they seem willing to do is different, but they have to prove it."
Some experts suggested that Iran is suffering internal divisions following the death of the then-supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, in an Israeli-US strike on Feb. 28 and the appointment of his son, Mojtaba, as the new supreme leader.
Iranian media confirmed that Mojtaba was injured in the same attack along with his father, Ali Khamenei. Until today, he has never made a public appearance.
