India, March 2 -- US President Donald Trump has said that the American and Israeli airstrike that killed Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday also killed the men the United States had identified as his most likely successors, leaving no clear picture of who will lead the Islamic Republic next.

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Trump made the remarks in a phone interview with US-based channel ABC News' Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl on Sunday night. "The attack was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates," Trump said, as per Karl on X, "It's not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead. Second or third place is dead."

Trump had initially told Karl tha...