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As Trump floats regime change in Iran, past US attempts to remake the Middle East may offer warnings
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As Trump floats regime change in Iran, past US attempts to remake the Middle East may offer warnings

  • By JOSEPH KRAUSS and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press

As President Donald Trump floats "regime change" in Tehran, previous U.S. attempts to remake the Middle East by force in recent decades can offer stark warnings about the possibility of a deepening involvement in the Iran-Israeli conflict. Trump posted over the weekend: "If the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn't there be a Regime change???" The White House insists Trump, who spent years railing against "forever wars," isn't doing an about-face and that Iranian citizens could revolt against its government. But that's a delicate, perilous path that other U.S. administrations have been down before. And it's a long way from Trump's dismissal of "stupid, endless wars."

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