Trump tells CNN he’s not worried whether Iran becomes a democratic state | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump told CNN Friday that Iran’s leadership has been “neutered” and that he’s looking for new leadership that will treat the United States and Israel well, even if that’s a religious leader and it’s not a democratic state. “Iran is not the same country it was a week ago. A week ago they were powerful, and now they’ve been indeed neutered,” he told CNN in a brief but wide-ranging phone interview. In that call, he also said Cuba would fall “pretty soon” and emphasized the importance of voter ID legislation, which he suggested could be determinative in his Texas Senate endorsement. Trump expressed confidence in the ease of picking a new leader in Iran — which he’s said he must be involved in — and again compared the mission to Venezuela, where the US captured Nicolás Maduro earlier this year and put his deputy in power. “It’s gonna work very easily. It’s going to work like did in Venezuela. We have a wonderful leader there. She’s doing a fantastic job. And it’s going to work Iike in Venezuela,” he said, referring to acting president Delcy Rodriguez. Trump also said he was open to having a religious leader in Iran. “Well I ma