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In fairness to the Trump administration, they did have several acceptable candidates in mind for a transitional government.

They just accidentally killed them all.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/world/middleeast/iranian-...

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In fairness i don't really believe them, i don't think anyone in the Iranian line of succession would've worked with the US.

Actually it was the other party in the war that killed them all

And they happen to have a different set of interests, which they may choose to follow over shared interests.

> In fairness to the Trump administration

Probably, Iranians also had several accepted candidates in mind to lead the US, but they didn't attack because they had some opinions about foreign government

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/iranian-intelligence-agent-co...

Sure. Just like Trump was an informant for the FBI on Epstein island.

I don't believe it's impossible Donald Trump spoke against his friends to the feds. I think it's likely.

It was a convenient misunderstanding about a call to the Palm Beach Sheriff. The FBI has a recording of the call, but probably ambiently from the Sheriff’s side. It’s a small ray of innocence for a guy like Trump. And he forgot all about it until by luck it was in the Epstein files.

What I find interesting is that Trump officials says Trump was the target here, but the guy was arrested in July of 2024 - which is when Biden was still in office.

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