WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump insisted on Thursday that he have a say in picking Iran’s next supreme leader, as the war triggered by the U.S.-Israeli campaign that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reverberated throughout the Middle East and beyond. Earlier, Israel issued an unprecedented evacuation warning for the entirety of Beirut’s southern suburbs, a stronghold of Iran-backed Hezbollah, sending residents fleeing in a panic from the district of hundreds of thousands of people. That warning followed a fresh wave of Israeli attacks on Iran, which again lashed out at Gulf nations. The war has drawn in global powers, snarling shipping and rattling energy markets. It has been felt as far away as the Sri Lankan coast, where a U.S. submarine torpedoed an Iranian warship, and Azerbaijan, which threatened retaliation after a drone hit an airport. Trump on Thursday rejected the possibility of Khamenei’s son, Mojtaba Khamenei, replacing his slain father as supreme leader, dismissing the younger man as a “lightweight.” “I have to be involved in the appointment, like with Delcy,” Trump to
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