Trump: Regime Change in Iran — The Best Thing That Could Happen
"For 47 years it was just talk, talk, talk. During that time, we lost many lives," he said on Friday.
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US President Donald Trump stated that regime change in Iran is "the best thing that could happen," thereby emphasizing his support for the idea of changing the clerical regime in the country, writes BBC.
"For 47 years it was just talk, talk, talk. During that time, we lost many lives," he said on Friday.
Trump declined to specify who he wants to see leading Iran, but noted that "there are people" who could take that position. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has not yet reacted to Trump's latest statements.
Meanwhile, the US has sent a second aircraft carrier to the Middle East to increase pressure on Iran for a nuclear deal.
According to Trump, the world's largest warship and the newest American aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R Ford, is expected to redeploy from the Caribbean to the Middle East "very quickly."
On his Truth Social platform, Trump published an aerial photo of the aircraft carrier, which appears to be on its way to join another American ship — the USS Abraham Lincoln — already deployed in the Middle East.
The Pentagon sent the aircraft carrier in January after the US threatened to strike Iran to end the bloody crackdown by the country's authorities on mass protests, which killed thousands of people.
Although Trump threatened strikes on Iran if a nuclear agreement was not reached, after talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Wednesday, he began to insist on continuing negotiations with Tehran.
"No final agreements were reached, except that I insisted on continuing negotiations with Iran to see if a deal could still be made," Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Speaking at Fort Bragg on Friday evening, Trump said Iran must "offer us a deal they should have offered us from the beginning," when asked what Tehran needs to do to avoid a US strike.
The US insists on an end to uranium enrichment in Iran, while the Netanyahu government demands that Tehran cut its ballistic missile program and its support for radical groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah.
Iran has so far stated its readiness to limit its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of sanctions, but the country's president, Masoud Pezeshkian, warned that Tehran "will not yield to excessive demands."
During his first term, Trump withdrew the US from the nuclear deal with Iran, concluded under Obama, and reimposed sanctions that severely undermined the country's economy.
Last year, the administration resumed negotiations to reach a new agreement before the 12-day war between Israel and Iran.
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