With diplomacy stalled, Trump returns to floating regime change in Iran
By June, Trump insisted he “never cared about regime change” in Iran, claiming he was in negotiations with “very rational people” and that American attempts at ousting foreign governments “never work.“The Iranian leadership sees this kind of economic campaign of economic pressure not in isolation, but as part of a broader campaign by the United States, which at some point is going to also have an element of domestic unrest and eventually lead either to regime change or to bring Iran to better terms with the United States,” said Hamidreza Azizi, senior Iran analyst at the International Crisis Group.“We are apologetic that these problems exist, as we find ourselves in a full-scale economic, military, and security war,” Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said before the new Treasury Department measures were announced last week, according to state media.
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