Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and White House national security adviser John Bolton 'have called for regime change in Iran' and may still want it.
President Donald Trump's decision to blame Iran for recent attacks on tankers in the Gulf of Oman came amid a concerted effort by his administration to portray the Islamic Republic as a rogue state—a campaign bolstered by hawkish hard-liners with influential positions in both countries.
The term has been applied to the Trump administration's efforts to isolate Iran diplomatically and economically, and especially so since the U.S. pulled out last year of a 2015 nuclear deal still supported by China, the European Union, France, Germany, Russia and the United Kingdom. Trump, too, was a longtime opponent of the Iran deal, but he has also advocated against costly,"endless wars" in the Middle East and beyond. Pompeo's and Bolton's appointments came shortly after Trump first suggested he may begin winding down the U.S. military presence in Syria, which ultimately never came to fruition as Washington's policy in the war-torn country became increasingly focused on Iran's presence there.
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