Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 04:39am on 05 Jul 2026,Sunday International
US President Donald Trump said Washington could eliminate Iran’s remaining leadership “with one shot” if it chose to, referring to senior Iranian officials gathered for the state funeral of late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in US-Israeli airstrikes on February 28. Trump, however, said the United States deliberately avoided such action to preserve ongoing nuclear negotiations with Tehran. “They are all there. One shot, but we are not going to do that because then we would have nobody to negotiate with,” he told Axios. Trump had earlier said he had given Iran a “week off” to observe Khamenei’s funeral before diplomatic efforts resumed. (PC: MSN)
