Speaking to the House Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was asked about whether or not the Trump Administration’s policy is one of trying to impose regime change on Iran. While Tillerson insisted that the specifics of administration policy on Iran are still under development, he did confirm that the goal remains regime change.
Exactly how they expect to pull that off remains to be seen, but Tillerson said the US policy as it stands is to rely on “elements inside of Iran” who can be supported toward the end goal of regime change, with the hope it would be a “peaceful transition of that government.”
That’s unlikely, as to the extent US officials have shown interest in supporting “elements” in Iran at all, it’s groups with long-standing links to terrorism like the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MeK). The actual reformists within Iran’s political system tend to be vilified by the US, and even when they do take power, as they have now, US hostility tends to undermine their ability to normalize ties with the West.
Actual regime change is not particularly realistic as a goal of US policy, and taking that position has in recent years been done mostly to placate hawks who have been arguing for decades for an outright US invasion. They are kept at least somewhat in line by the dream that some day, there’s going to be one of those classic color-coded revolution to install a pro-US government in Iran.
Another broken promise.
So the U.S. wants regime change again in Iran! Like maybe putting in the son of the Shah that the U.S. put in power in Iran after the U.S. backed coup overthrowing the democratically elected Mossadegh back in the 50’s.
America’s blather about promoting democracy is so hypocritical and false. It’s all about America ruling the world.
Empire USA, like all Empires, will surely be brutal, imperial and until put out of it’s misery by the world will expand like there is no tomorrow.
So, what is the world waiting for?
Seeing how regime change in Iraq worked out, maybe Iranians in the US might want to start noticing lets there won’t be any country to return to.
Many of the Iranians in the US are from the pro-Shah, pro-torture, pro-police state crowd the fled here in the 1970’s.
Ohhhhh I see. It’s ‘election hacking’ when the Russians do it, but ‘regime change’ when we do it. Of course! We did the whole ‘regime change’ thing in Iraq and Libya already- how did that work out?
We did the regime change thing in Iran as well. How did that work out?
For those who don’t know, Iran had a revolution and chose to go with a pro-western form of democracy in the early 50’s. And, strangely, their democracy decided they wanted to get paid for their oil, rather than letting the Brits and British Petroleum steal it. For that, the US and UK overthrew that democracy and installed the Shah of Iran as ruler. The Shah tortured and killed his own people and spent the money lavishly on palaces and a military machine …. up until the people rose up and overthrew him. That’s what led to the current government.
The hypocrisy of the United States is mind-numbing.
that filthy orange clown and that former exxon CEO tillerson , rat, are doing just what the clown said that he wouldnt do, he lied thru his fat ass, and he needs to be run out of this country now,……
umm, perfectly, according to their measure. They will finish off Iran too.
Says a wishful thinking hasbarist.
you idiot ,iran isnt the problem , its the orange clown disaster, that is the problem, you voted for this filth, its your fault…….
Iran may end up with the distinction of being the first and the last country the Murkans try to overthrow.
The US overthrew countries before the 1950s.
Yep. There’s the history of central America before that. And of course the slaughter of the Phillipines before that. I’d bet typing “Mark Twain” and “Phillipines” into a search engine gives some interesting results. Or, we might go back to the Indian nations. The Cherokees and the Trail of Tears was in the 1830’s. And, even if we stuck to post WW2, Greece happened before Iran.
That’s quite right. In fact Roosevelt(along with Churchill), was actually responsible for expanding the regional conflict between Germany(who wanted back its land stolen via Versailles Treaty), and Poland into a world war for their benefit(and the Zionist bankers) alone.
Just another pipe dream. Rusia won’t let it happen.
Idiots. They have just gotten the worst of all worlds.
1. Trump said he was against nation building but now nation building is on the table.
2. Now every terrorist attack in Iran can legitimately be blamed on the U.S. especially after the hiring of the new CIA director.
3. As others pointed out, we have just declared that we are major hypocrites. Our ‘democracy’ and govt is sacred and holy but the rest of the world be damned. The is breathtaking arrogance. Pride comes before a fall.
4. This will increase Iran’s influence as Iran will point to the other Gulf countries and say, ‘First Iraq, Libya, Syria, now us, you’re next. We have our differences but all of us have a common interest in maintaining our sovereignty.’ Actually, Iran already says this but this underscores their point, now that are in the see I told you so stage.
Actually, I think Trump specifically said he was against “regime change”, and that all of these attempts had been a mistake.
It was Dubya/Cheney who said they were against “nation-building” when they ran against Al Gore, before they decided to build the nations of Iraq and Afghanistan.
So the US interfered in Iranian elections in 1953, and is doing so now too.
Notice that very, very few Republicans or Democrats have pointed this out during the recent investigations into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US election.
America has been the World Champ at interfering in other nation’s elections for quite some time now.
The Presidential elections in Iran before that and the whole “Green Revolution” attempt after was just one example.
The most glaring example is of course the way Hillary interfered in the Russian Presidential elections back in 2011 or 12. American money was sponsering “liberal” candidates against Putin, and they tried to overthrow the government by claiming election fraud and with protests in the street (like they did with Trump), but only about 3 people showed up for the protests.
Putin of course knows this. I’d bet he laughs everytime he reads about Russian interference.
Again, we talk about regime change in a sovereign country like we’re setting up a lunch date. Our arrogance astounds. Iran should start attacking US assets in their immediate vicinity in the name of self defense.
One thing not mentioned in this thread is that Iran will be a much tougher target than any the Us had tried recently. Iran is a country that has had a successful revolution within the lifetime of its people. That generation would be in their 60’s or so now. But now younger people will want to defend their country and show to their grandparents that they have at least their courage in standing up to the Great Satan. And its not likely the US will have the element of surprise when every President since Carter has threatened to do this.
Iran’s regime is not our problem. We need regime change in the US.
I don’t mean just Trump, I mean our two parties and the way Washington runs, the Establishment of war against many nations undertaken for slightest reasons, of war against our own people, of neoliberal economics at home and abroad, of corruption as money controls politics.
This attack on Iran is a symptom of the problem we have here at home, seeking another war, blaming everyone but ourselves for what we’ve done to ourselves.
Great, now all the business that would create US jobs is being handed over to China & Europe.
Who benefits?
That “shitty little country”.
Who loses?
The US economy.
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It is real hubris.US working to change regime in Iran.Then why don’t the world try a regime change in the US.American people really deserve it.As of America is ruled by lobby groups
well well well, the US is attempting to CHANGE THE GOVERNMENT in yet another country.. the hypocrisy is palpable given recent accusations by the US government against Russia and the US governments ongoing history of interfering in foreign governments/overthrowing foreign governments.
Tillerson, you absolute moron. First of all, you are the nation’s top diplomat. Diplomats do diplomacy, not overthrow democratically elected governments. Second, how did regime change work for us in Iraq? Syria? Libya? Afghanistan? Ukraine? All destabilized bastions of murder and chaos. Quagmires that we’ll never get out of. And from that ‘model of success’, you want to try it again? You are the ex-CEO of a multinational company. How do you think business will be after Iran is burning rubble? One less market to sell to. Oh sure the U.S. arms sales will benefit. And all the politicians, career bureaucrats, think tanks will maintain their extravagant lifestyles at the expense of the American taxpayer. So now we’ll have to contend with Iranian refugees, flooding into Europe and America and you think they’ll be happy with having been ‘relocated’ because we destroyed their country? Then the Iranian ‘terrorism’ will start in Western countries and these same geniuses will be telling us that now they need more money to fight ‘Iranian terror’. Funny how that works. Where have we seen this before? I get that Iran is connected to terror groups. So is Saudi Arabia and Qatar, but they both just got juicy arms deals from us. Just don’t get how stupid you think we are that we are going to fall for the lies, deception and support your idiotic policies that make you and your cronies rich, and us poorer and less safe. But don’t worry, the mainstream media will go along with your propaganda so, yea, it might actually work again.