{"id":242288,"date":"2026-03-10T13:22:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T09:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=242288"},"modified":"2026-03-10T17:08:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T13:08:44","slug":"white-house-to-support-irans-new-leaders-assassination-if-he-refuses-concessions-wsj-writes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/242288\/","title":{"rendered":"White House to support Iran\u2019s new leader\u2019s assassination if he refuses concessions, WSJ writes"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Israel, with US backing, may plan an assassination attempt against Iran&rsquo;s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who is considered unwilling to make concessions, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing current and former US officials.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump has reportedly told advisors that he would support the idea of removing Khamenei if the leader refuses to make concessions to the US, particularly regarding Iran&rsquo;s nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p>However, Washington considers Khamenei a hardline politician and does not expect him to abandon Iran&rsquo;s nuclear ambitions or negotiate favorable terms with the United States.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel, with US backing, may plan an assassination attempt against Iran&rsquo;s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who is considered unwilling to make concessions, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing current and former US officials. US President Donald Trump has reportedly told advisors that he would support the idea of removing Khamenei if the leader refuses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":242129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,96,98,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-iran-en","category-other-en","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242289,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242288\/revisions\/242289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}