Was I wrong to accuse Trump of wanting regime change in Iran?
Instead of a regime change war we have a ceasefire, at least for the moment
I wrote previously that the Trump regime was clearly trying to provoke Iran into a retaliatory attack against the United States by bombing their nuclear facilities so that the Trump regime would have an excuse to engage in a regime change war against Iran.
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Instead of that, President Trump ended up announcing a ceasefire between Israel / America and Iran.
Does this ceasefire prove that I was wrong? At this point I would say no, because we have no reason to trust in Trump’s ceasefire anymore than we had reason to trust in his diplomacy with Iran, which he openly acknowledges was a ruse to open the door for the Israeli / American attacks against Iran. He is saying the right things regarding the ceasefire and even being critical of Israel for violating the ceasefire, but words are worth nothing from Donald Trump. The only way to judge the ceasefire is to see how it plays out over time, and for now it’s far too early to say.
If the ceasefire holds, and Trump is willing to enforce it against Israel (we have no doubt he would be willing to do so against Iran), then my initial response was wrong by a degree. I wrote:
It should also be apparent that the Trump regime wants Iran to escalate after this bombing so that they have an excuse to to enact the regime change war against Iran that Israel and the neoconservatives have been agitating for three decades at a minimum.
Again, assuming the ceasefire holds, then saying that Trump wanted Iran to escalate was obviously not correct. Iran did retaliate by bombing a U.S. base in Qatar, but made sure that the U.S. government knew exactly when that attack was going to happen, per Trump himself, so that there would be no possibility of an American being wounded or killed in the attack.
I want to thank Iran for giving us early notice, which made it possible for no lives to be lost, and nobody to be injured.
So it’s exactly what Dave Smith said in a recent episode of Part of the Problem: it was Iranian restraint that averted disaster. That said, if the Trump regime absolutely wanted an excuse to start a regime change war against Iran, as I stated previously, they would have used the retaliatory strike, or any other lie, like Iran’s non-existent nuclear weapons program, as a pretext no matter what. So my claim in the previous post may prove to have been incorrect, and that’s a good thing. I could not be happier to be wrong if that turns out to be the case, but I remain skeptical of Trump’s ceasefire.
I was not entirely wrong, however, because Trump himself stated that regime change in Iran was an option.
Meaning, if Iran had not practiced restraint in retaliating against the illegal American attack against their nuclear energy program, Trump was considering a policy of regime change against them, which would have meant full-scale war with Iran. So, again, it was Iran, not Trump and certainly not Israel, who de-escalated the situation to avoid a catastrophic regime change war, assuming the ceasefire is actually enforced and is not just another ruse to prepare for a regime change war against Iran. The only way to be certain, at this point, is to wait and see.