Shortly after Vice President J.D. Vance disputed the US’s curiosity in “regime change” in Iran, President Donald Trump signaled openness to a shake-up within the nation’s management.
“It’s not politically appropriate to make use of the time period, ‘Regime Change,’ but when the present Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn’t there be a Regime change??? MIGA!!!,” Trump wrote in a Sunday evening Truth Social post.
Trump’s statements come after Vance and Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth emphasised that US strikes on Iran have been an “deliberately restricted” operation targeted on eliminating the nation’s nuclear capabilities – and never fueling a bigger battle.
“Our view has been very clear that we don’t need a regime change,” Vance said in a Sunday NBC News interview. “This mission was not, and has not, been about regime change,” Hegseth told reporters during a Sunday briefing.
Trump’s publish on Sunday notably muddied the administration’s position.
Final week, Trump had written that the US knew the place Iran’s Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was hiding, however that “We aren’t going to take him out (kill!), not less than not for now.” Beforehand, Trump has also criticized the US’s role in wars that spurred “regime adjustments” in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in the meantime, has mentioned that “regime change” in Iran is just not a purpose of the assaults his nation has launched, although it might be a “consequence.”