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Those who thought President Donald Trump would. be satisfied with the death of Ayatollah Khamenei and forty other senior leaders, both civilian and military, the destruction of Iran’s store of ballistic missiles, its anti-missile defense systems, radar installations, naval ships, and attacks on nuclear sites that Iran had been rebuilding since the June war, have another think coming. It is now clear that Trump has no intention of stopping until the regime has collapsed, which he now predicts might take “four weeks.” More on his new war aim can be found here: “Trump will stay in the fight against Iran until regime is toppled, sources tell ‘Post’ – exclusive,” by Amichai Stein, Jerusalem Post, March 2, 2026:
Israel is confident that not only is regime change in Iran possible, but also that the US will stay in the fight until it happens, senior Israeli officials told The Jerusalem Post on Monday.
This is contrary to claims made by American officials who spoke with Reuters and expressed skepticism about the possibility of regime change.
“Trump intends to go all the way with this move,” one senior official told the Post. “He has already marked the target. He wants to replace the regime, and he has no intention of taking his foot off the gas.”
In recent days, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump have said that the objective of the operation is to “create the conditions for the Iranian people to replace the regime.”…
Another senior official said that the significant and indiscriminate missile fire directed at Gulf states has led those countries to conclude that regime change in Tehran is necessary.
The barrage of missiles that the Iranians have launched at Sunni Arab states in the Gulf, including Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, and nearby, at Jordan, have turned those states into enraged enemies of Iran, promising to exact their revenge on the Islamic Republic. And they have concluded that it’s not enough for the American and Israeli attacks to weaken the rabid regime in Tehran; it needs to be replaced.
Trump said on Sunday night that he has three individuals in mind whom he views as possible leaders of Iran in the post-war period, but he did not disclose their names.
One of the three, surely, is Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, whose name has been shouted by the protesters on the streets of Iran — those cries of “Javid Shah,” which means “Long live the shah.” He has made clear he would only be a temporary figurehead for a transitional government, and would remain, unless the Iranian people demanded that he stay, only until elections could be held and a new government put in place.
Dr. Raz Zimmt, director of the Iran and the Shi’ite Axis Program at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), estimates that the more plausible scenario at this stage is not regime change but rather a change within the current leadership.
“At the moment, the only scenario, even if it would be difficult to implement, is some form of change within the existing regime and the rise of more pragmatic leadership. Even that is not simple right now, because the atmosphere at the top of the political system is highly militant,” he said….
But as long as the Revolutionary Guards remain dominant, no leadership will be able to bring about significant change in Iran.”
And it is the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) senior leaders, IRGC headquarters, IRGC command-and-control centers, that the Israelis are now relentlessly targeting in Tehran. The Israelis have so far conducted more than 2,000 strikes in the country in the space of two days. When the Israelis predict that regime change is possible, while some Americans officials are doubtful, whom should we trust? Who knows more about the inner workings of the Iranian government, the mood of the Iranian people, and the morale of the IRGC and the Basij? Is it the CIA, most of whose operatives left Iran in 1979, or the Mossad, that has maintained a large presence in the country out of necessity, ever since the anti-Israel Ayatollah Khomeini replaced the pro-Israel shah?
Until the Iranians do come onto the streets, by the millions, the regime will not fall. And since that is now President Trump’s war aim, the Americans and the Israelis will continue their attacks on the IRGC, the regime’s main instrument of oppression, until it is so weakened, not just in weaponry but in its morale, that Iranians will again feel safe enough to go out on the streets, demanding the regime change that Trump insists is now his war aim. Within about a month, we will see if, as the Israelis claim, regime change is possible or if, as all sorts of talking heads in Washington predict, the regime, battered but not bowed, remains in place.
When was the last time regime change worked wonders?
The last time was World War 2 with Germany and Japan. Mostly with Japan. Germany is collapsing back to self-destruction and tyranny.
But can a positive and favorable regime change happen without boots on the ground? And years of occupation and FORCEFUL guidance by the USA?
“Eliminating Iran’s terrorist sanctuaries and military capability is not enough. We must do the equivalent of de-Nazifying the country, by expelling every official and bringing down every branch of its government. This goal cannot be achieved painlessly, by weaponry alone. It requires invasion by ground troops, who will be at serious risk, and perhaps a period of occupation. But nothing less will “end the state” that most cries out to be ended.” – Leonard Peikoff, “End States Who Sponsor Terrorism”
“A majority without an ideology is a helpless mob, to be taken over by anyone . . . . Political freedom requires much more than the people’s wish. It requires an enormously complex knowledge of political theory and of how to implement it in practice” – Ayn Rand
The people are the power that will make regime change work. They have risked their lives for it. They begged us to destroy the current regime. Have patience.
President Trump is absolutely right. Total regime change in
Iran must be the American and Israeli goal.
What sense does it make to leave any of the regime in place
– with their brutal, barbaric Islamic beliefs – to have any say
in the Iranian people’s lives.
How wonderful is the prospect that there might arise in Iran
a government that totally rejects living under Islam.
Iran will not abjure Islam. It is a very conservative country with a serious urban-rural divide and Iranians are fiercely nationalist, as well.
At best, it’ll have a regime that plays by minimal rules.
Taylor – You are correct. I probably should have
written “a government that rejects as much as
possible living under Islam”.
Especially since it’s so vivid in Iranian minds just
how draconian it was to do so.
Anything less than regime change would be a total failure. I have my doubts as to whether the opposition in Iran has the numbers or means to make that happen. Perhaps we’ve turned some regular Iranian army commanders, but the real power lies with the IGRC, The IGRC controls the mass militia Basij as well as the Quds forces for foreign operations, and coordinates with the internal police forces, all answerable directly to the Supreme Leader.
Maybe Iran attacks the Gulf states, plus Jordan, because the now defunct ‘British Empire’ unnaturally created them all for greed of oil. The message is an ideological reprimand that these ‘countries’ sold out allah for money, that there are no borders in Islam, that the land of Islam is the world.
If greed for oil was the motivation of the now defunct “British Empire” why did it surrender the property rights to that oil to the 7th century Muslim hordes?
It didn’t. Gulf oil is denominated in Sterling. That’s just for starters. Britain gave up direct control, that’s all n
Stop calling it regime change and start calling it a revolution please!
There is no pragmatism among the leadership of the Islamic Republic. There is only repression, cruelty, lies, hypocrisy and incompetence. Thus, no pragmatic leader to take the Ayatollah’s place exists.
Really, a full uderstanding of what Iran became after its courtship with full monty Islam ought to discredit Islam forever. Alas, people are not rational nor even well informed.
Kevin T Kitty – Exactly. That Dr. Raz Zimmt is obviously not
imbued with the spirit of freedom that is now in the hearts
of his fellow Iranian people. Who are dying by the thousands
across their country for that freedom.
With pragmatic being defined as choosing the practical and
the common sense over the theoretical – he doesn’t seem
to comprehend what fanatical religious zealots Iran’s current
leaders are. More likely, he does and is just one of their toadies.
That’s cute. Zimmt is a professor (at my Alma mater) Tel Aviv University. He spent a long time in the IDF as an Iran expert. He cares about Israel, not Iran.
You don’t seriously believe you know more about him, Iran or Iranians than he does, do you?
Taylor – I did not know Zimmt was a member of the IDF
and a veteran Iran watcher. One would not assume
that from reading this article. I had never heard of him.
So I do appreciate any further knowledge of him that
would change my perspective.
But! Sideline any snide remarks concerning me, Bub.
Try to keep a spirit, while correcting people, of doing so
only to increase understanding.
President Trump did keep his promise to help the people of Iran in their righteous and just quest to establish a legitimate government installed in place of the horrific tyranny they had suffered under.
About President Trump ordering Air Force striking the headquarters of those vicious oppressive despots of that Islamic tyrannical regime, that is the way that those tyrants should be dealt with. Using the power of a strong might of military force against them, and their brutal cruel murderous thugs in uniform, as the who re called the” Revolutionary guards” and the so called “morality police.”
As it had been rightly and wisely said that “Half –measures in war is folly and madness.”
Therefore, it’s fitting to hit them hard and hit for along tine and keep on hitting then until “mullah regime” is totally defeated. The in place in that horrendous tyranny a genuine, legitimist government should and needs to be established which respects the basic human rights of its citizens.
For maybe now a legitimate government will now be established in Iran, which respects the basic human rights of the people. In place of that horrendously brutal cruel oppressive Islamic tyrannical regime that inflected so much misery and death upon the people of Iran.
About the US and Israeli Air Force striking the headquarters of those vicious oppressive despots of that Islamic tyrannical regime, that is the way that those tyrants should be dealt with. Using the power of a strong might of military force against them, and their brutal cruel murderous thugs in uniform, as the who re called the” Revolutionary guards” and the so called “morality police.”
As it had been rightly and wisely said that “Half –measures in war is folly and madness.”
Therefore, it’s fitting to hit them hard and hit for along tine and keep on hitting then until “mullah regime” is totally defeated. The in place in that horrendous tyranny a genuine, legitimist government should and needs to be established which respects the basic human rights of its citizens.
You’re correct. I’ll add that Trump called on Iranians to rise up several months and that, if they did, we wouldn’t abandon them. Trump pulled the carpet out from under them and thousands were killed. Were I Iranian, I’d be afraid to rise up a second time.
The Iranian people should have squads right now going around and picking off the IRGC and all Iranian Gov. agencies that oppress the people. If the IRGC, et al, start to feel like they can’t go around a corner without being taken out, it will cause mass defections.
Finding a way to stop their paycheck would help also. Maybe Mossad can blow up their printing presses.
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