🔶 Trump: We could kill Iran’s officials at Khamenei’s ceremony, but we won’t Donald Trump, the U.S. president, said his country could kill the remaining leaders of Iran “with a single shot” at the ceremony for the late Ali Khamenei, the former leader of the Islamic Republic, but that it will not do so, because then no one would be left “to negotiate with.” He said on Saturday, in an interview with the Axios website: “They’re all there. With one shot we can take them all out, but we won’t do it, because then we don’t have anyone to negotiate with... They’re begging to reach an agreement.” He also claimed that both sides decided to pause the talks for one week until the end of the Ali Khamenei funeral ceremony. According to Trump, during that period neither side will attack the other. Ali Khamenei was killed on 9 Esfand 1404 in Israeli and U.S. attacks on the leadership compound in Tehran. His body was placed for public farewell at Tehran’s Musalla on Saturday, 13 Tir, coinciding with the anniversary of U.S. Independence, and he is scheduled to be buried in Mashhad on Thursday, 18 Tir.