Trump floats regime change in Iran
floated the possibility of 'regime change' in Iran on Sunday in a post to his Truth Social account.
This is the first time Trump has raised the possibility of regime change in Iran since Israel
launched its war
ten days ago — and the U.S.
joined with airstrikes
targeting Iran's nuclear sites on Saturday.
The president's post is a departure from the rest of his administration, which has stressed multiple times over the last several days that its goal is to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and that the U.S. is not pushing for regime change in Iran.
An Iran regime change has become
an unstated goal
of the Israeli government since the war began earlier this month. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu even said it could be one of the results of the war.
Yes, but
, there has been no significant uprising against the Iranian regime since the war began, and experts have mentioned a dynamic of rallying around the flag in Iran — even among Iranians who are critical of the regime.
Trump also wrote on his Truth Social account on Sunday that the damage to the Iran nuclear sites targeted by U.S. airstrikes 'is said to be monumental' and that the hits 'were hard and accurate.'
Khamanei's successor
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has named three senior clerics as candidates to take his place if he is assassinated,
The New York Times
reported.
Living in a deep bunker, Khamenei has also instructed officials to shut down all electronic communications around him to make it harder to find him, the newspaper
reported
, quoting three Iranian officials familiar with Khamenei's emergency war plans.
The NYT in its report said: Ayatollah Khamenei's son Mojtaba, also a cleric and close to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, who was rumored to be a front-runner, is not among the candidates, the officials said. Iran's former conservative president, Ibrahim Raisi, was also considered a front-runner before he was killed in a helicopter crash in 2024.
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