Trump tells CNN he’s not worried whether Iran becomes a democratic state
President Donald Trump told CNN Friday that Iran’s leadership has been “neutered” and that he’s looking for new leadership that will treat the United States and Israel well, even if that’s a religious leader and it’s not a democratic state.
“Iran is not the same country it was a week ago. A week ago they were powerful, and now they’ve been indeed neutered,” he told CNN in a brief but wide-ranging phone interview.
In that call, he also said Cuba would fall “pretty soon” and emphasized the importance of voter ID legislation, which he suggested could be determinative in his Texas Senate endorsement.
Trump expressed confidence in the ease of picking a new leader in Iran — which he’s said he must be involved in — and again compared the mission to Venezuela, where the US captured Nicolás Maduro earlier this year and put his deputy in power.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/politics/trump-interview-iran-cuba-dana-bash
Trump shifts Iran war aims toward regime surrender – WSJ
Donald Trump rapidly shifted the stated objectives of the war with Iran—moving from urging Iranians to shape their own future to demanding the regime’s “unconditional surrender” and signaling he may help decide the country’s next leader, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.
“Even as the conflict has escalated into a regional crisis involving more than a dozen countries, President Donald Trump appears to be refining the rationale and endgame of the war on the fly, according to current and former US officials and allied diplomats,” the report said.
“It will be impossible to replicate the model in Iran, analysts say. Unlike in Venezuela, where the US was dealing with a hollowed-out petrostate, Washington is confronting an entrenched theocracy backed by a vast security apparatus that is built to preserve the system even after the loss of senior leaders,” the report added.
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202603075188
Trump to welcome home six American troops killed in the Iran war at dignified transfer ceremony
Donald Trump will attend the first dignified transfer ceremony for those killed in the Iran war on Saturday.
The President will travel to Dover Air Force Base, where the remains of six US service members who died in Kuwait will be returned to their families.
The six Americans who were killed Sunday were Army reservists with the 103rd Sustainment Command based out of Des Moines, Iowa.
Nicole Amor, 39, Cody Khork, 35, Declan Coady, 20, Robert Marzan, 54, Jeffrey O’Brien, 45 and Noah Tietjens, 42, died in the conflict.
The President told the Daily Mail during a phone interview on Sunday that he was open to going, with White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt making the plan official during her briefing on Wednesday.
It will mark the President’s second trip to Dover for this type of military ceremony during his second term.
Trump also attended one in December to pay tribute to two US Army soldiers and their US civilian interpreter who were killed by an ISIS-affiliated gunman in Syria.
The President attended just four dignified transfer ceremonies during his first term, which sometimes put him in political hot water.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15621577/president-trump-dignified-transfer-dover.html