US president Donald Trump speaking at a Republican fundraiser claimed that Iran’s leadership had informally floated the idea of him becoming the Islamic Republic’s next Supreme Leader, but he turned them down, reported India Today on Thursday.

The report available online read, Trump said, ‘There’s never been a head of a country that wanted that job less than being the head of Iran.’

Trump added ‘We hear them very clearly. They say, I don’t want it. We’d like to make you the next supreme leader. No, thank you. I don’t want it.’

According to the report, Trump described the operation against Iran as a ‘military decimation’, and once again gleefully declared a US victory in the war.

‘And I tell you, we’re winning so big, nobody’s ever seen anything like we’re doing in the Middle East with Iran. And they are negotiating, by the way, and they want to make a deal so badly. But they’re afraid to say it because they figure they’ll be killed by their own people. They’re also afraid they’ll be killed by us,’ he said.