Trump Says Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei ‘Should Be Very Worried’

The comment come as the United States and Iran are due to negotiate the country’s controversial nuclear program.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks after casting his vote for the presidential runoff election in Tehran, Iran, on July 5, 2024. Majid Saeedi/Getty Images

President Donald Trump said in a new interview that Iran’s top leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, should be concerned amid negotiations between Tehran and the United States over the country’s nuclear program.

“I want peace in the Middle East,” Trump told NBC News’ Tom Llamas in a video interview aired on Feb. 4. “If we didn’t take out that nuclear [program], we wouldn’t have peace in the Middle East.”