A new American president and a new Middle East configuration have brought Iran back into the crosshairs for regime change with an intoxicating vengeance.
The signs are that Iran is going to face intensified hostility from the U.S. over the next year for regime change.
The sudden fall of Syria and the isolation of Hezbollah in Lebanon – Iran’s regional allies – have made Tehran look vulnerable.
Anti-Iran hawks in the U.S. are cock-a-hoop about the prospect of regime change in Tehran.
The recent death of Jimmy Carter at the age of 100 puts in perspective how great a prize the Islamic Republic represents for Washington’s imperial desires. Carter was disparaged as the American president who lost Iran in 1979 as a crucial client state for U.S. power in the Middle East.
For over four decades, American imperialist power has sought to topple the Islamic Republic and return the Persian nation to the U.S. global fold.
Though, as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken lamented last month, American “regime change experiments” in Iran have been a failure.
Now, however, there is renewed enthusiasm in Washington for the Persian prize.
The lust for regime change in Tehran has peaked with the dramatic fall of President al-Assad in Syria.
American lawmakers and Iranian exiles are publicly calling for the new Trump administration to get back to its maximum pressure campaign on Tehran because they believe there is “a perfect moment” for regime change.
During Donald Trump’s first White House (2017-2021), he revoked the Iranian nuclear deal of the Obama administration and ramped up economic sanctions in what was referred to as a policy of “maximum pressure.”
A growing chorus of Republicans and Democrats are urging the United States to seize the opportunity of a perceived weakened Iran to overthrow the clerical rule of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Hellbound and Down 