Trump suggests regime change in Iran – hours after Vance and Hegseth insisted that was not the plan | EUROtoday
Just hours after Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth insisted that there was no plan for the U.S. to push for regime change in Iran, President Donald Trump instructed he was open to the thought.
After the U.S. joined Israel’s air marketing campaign focusing on Iran’s nuclear websites on Saturday with an audacious strike utilizing bunker-busting bombs launched from B-2 bombers, Vance appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday morning.
The vice chairman stated that the administration’s view “has been very clear that we don’t want a regime change.”
He added: “We do not want to protract this or build this out any more than it’s already been built out. We want to end their nuclear program, and then we want to talk to the Iranians about a long-term settlement here.”
However, by late afternoon, a unique message emerged from the White House.

The president posted on Truth Social: “It’s not politically correct to use the term, ‘Regime Change,’ but if the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn’t there be a Regime change??? MIGA!!!”
It is the primary time Trump has raised the potential of regime change in Iran, or inspired it, since Israel launched air strikes towards the nation ten days in the past.
It can also be a change of tune for Trump, who has criticized neo-conservatives within the Republican Party for years for his or her help for regime adjustments, most notably in Iraq.
Vance will not be alone in stressing that the objective is to not topple the federal government in Tehran. Other administration officers have stated that the objective is to forestall Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
Also on Sunday morning, Secretary Hegseth insisted the Trump administration “does not seek war” and isn’t attempting to power regime change.
“Iran’s nuclear ambitions have been obliterated,” Hegseth informed reporters in a briefing, including that the strikes didn’t goal Iranian troops or folks.
Vance reiterated that message throughout his NBC look, describing it as “an incredibly targeted attack” whereas admitting it’s “an incredibly delicate moment.”
Of the potential of Iran responding by attacking U.S. troops, the vice chairman stated it might be “the stupidest thing in the world,” and can be “met with overwhelming force.”

“If the Iranians are smart, they are going to have to look in the mirror and say, ‘Maybe we are not so good at this war thing, let’s give peace a chance, let’s drop our nuclear weapons programme and start to make some smart decisions’,” he added.
In different posts, Trump stated the harm to Iran’s nuclear websites is alleged to be “monumental” because of “hard and accurate” hits by the army, and thanked the B-2 crews for “a job well done” once they landed again in Missouri.
Iran’s U.N. ambassador, Amir Saeid Iravani, talking at an emergency assembly of the United Nations Security Council on Sunday, stated that the U.S. “decided to destroy diplomacy” with its strikes on the nation’s nuclear program and that the Iranian army will determine the “timing, nature and scale of Iran’s proportionate response.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-iran-regime-change-miga-b2774822.html