India, March 4 -- US President Donald Trump spoke about the chances of exiled son of Iran's toppled Shah, Reza Pahlavi, becoming the leader of the country after the death of the nation's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. Trump reportedly said that he preferred that someone from within Iran take charge.

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"Some people like him, and we haven't been thinking too much about that. It would seem to me that somebody from within, maybe, would be more appropriate," he was quoted as saying by CNN.

Trump said that "he looks like a very nice person", adding that "somebody that's there, that's popular, if there's such a person" would be a better choice as the leader of the country.

Reza, the son of the last Shah of ...