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Khamenei's son is unacceptable to me. We want someone that will bring harmony and peace to Iran.

— Donald Trump, Axios interview about Mojtaba Khamenei as a potential successor to Iran's Supreme Leader

We should flush his ashes down the toilet.

— Samantha Bryan, Ian Huntley's daughter, told The Sun on Sunday about her father's death, saying: 'We should flush his ashes down the toilet.'

A very political and dynastic decision.

— Mehdi Hasan, journalist, commenting on the new Iranian supreme leader.

The deep state in the Islamic Republic wants continuity. If Mojtaba indeed is chosen as his father's successor, it would indicate more than anything else that the Islamic Republic is trying to ensure continuity.

— Mehran Kamrava, Georgetown University professor and Iran expert, in Doha, said in an interview.

Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions, another setback to the idea of the rule of law, an offense to common decency. Every day, you wake up to new things you just didn't think were possible. Each day we're told by those in high office to fear each other and to turn on each other, and that some Americans count more than others, and that some don't even count it all.

— Barack Obama at the funeral service for Reverend Jesse Jackson

Iran will not negotiate with the United States.

— Ali Larijani, Iran's top national security official and secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, said this in a post on X.

The blood is on their hands.

— Patricia Brooks, prosecutor, in closing arguments in the murder/manslaughter trial against Colin Gray and his son.

that thing in the box

— Maxine Carr, Huntley's fiancée, describing him in court during his murder trial