New Delhi, March 4 -- US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said 'someone from within' the Iranian regime might be the best choice to take power once the U.S.-Israel campaign is finished.

Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump said Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran's toppled Shah, is not someone that his administration has considered in depth to take over.

"We have been thinking too much about that. It would seem to me that somebody from within would be more appropriate; I have said that. He looks like a very nice person, but it would seem to me that someone who is there and currently popular. But we have people like that," Trump said when asked about Pahlavi.

As far as possible leaders inside Iran, "the people we had in mind are dead,...