Top officials in Iran have pledged allegiance to Mojtaba Khamenei as the country’s new supreme leader, after the U.S.-Israeli coalition killed his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a February 28 airstrike. Khamenei’s ascension to supreme leader came after President Trump warned that if he “doesn’t get approval from us, he’s not going to last long.” Trump said last week he would choose a ”GREAT AND ACCEPTABLE leader” after Iran’s “unconditional surrender.” In Tehran, Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian on Sunday ruled out any capitulation to the U.S. and Israel.

President Masoud Pezeshkian: “America and Israel, who without any hesitation kill 168 innocent children, feel no shame for killing these children. They feel no shame for massacring 50,000 to 60,000 people in Gaza. And then they want to say that we in Iran want to kill people. We stand against those who attack our country with full force, and we’ll respond with full force.”