{"id":34510,"date":"2018-05-24T07:20:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T12:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34510"},"modified":"2018-05-24T07:20:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T12:20:46","slug":"bolton-trying-to-convince-trump-to-topple-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34510","title":{"rendered":"Bolton Trying to Convince Trump to Topple Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bolton Trying to Convince Trump to Topple Iran<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Now that the Trump administration has derailed the Iran nuclear deal, the old issue of regime change in Iran is back again. National Security Advisor John Bolton is obviously the chief regime-change advocate in the administration, and there is every reason to believe he has begun to push that policy with Donald Trump in his first month in the White House.<\/p>\n

Bolton was part of the powerful neoconservative faction of national security officials in the George W. Bush administration that had a plan for supporting regime change in Iran, not much different from the one Bolton is reportedly pushing now. But it was a crackbrained scheme that involved the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) exiled terrorist organisation that never had Bush\u2019s support.<\/p>\n

Bolton may find history repeating itself, with Trump resisting his plan for regime change, just as Bush did in 2003.<\/p>\n

Trump Calls for Change<\/b><\/p>\n

Trump has appeared to flirt with the idea of Iranian regime change in the past. During the December protests in Iran, he said on Twitter that it was time for a change, noting: \u201cThe great Iranian people have been repressed for many years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s killing of the nuclear deal, however, stopped short of rhetoric signalling the aim of overthrowing the Islamic Republic. Instead, Trump suggested that \u201cIran\u2019s leaders\u201d are \u201cgoing to want to make a new and lasting deal, one that benefits all of Iran and the Iranian people\u201d. He added: \u201cWhen they do, I am ready, willing and able.\u201d<\/p>\n

A few days after the Trump announcement, an unnamed National Security Council (NSC) official avoided any hint of regime change,\u00a0telling<\/a>\u00a0the neoconservative Washington Free Beacon: \u201cOur stated policy is to change the Iranian regime\u2019s behaviour.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, Bolton has issued an even more explicit denial, telling ABC<\/p>\n

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Bolton: Not the \u2018decision-maker.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Bolton Trying to Convince Trump to Topple Iran Now that the Trump administration has derailed the Iran nuclear deal, the old issue of regime change in Iran is back again. National Security Advisor John Bolton is obviously the chief regime-change advocate in the administration, and there is every reason to believe he has begun to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6963,7844,5242,441,4487,1343,827,862],"class_list":["post-34510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-consortium-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-gareth-porter","tag-iran","tag-john-bolton","tag-regime-change","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34511,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34510\/revisions\/34511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}