Despite Trump’s claims, US will never abandon Iran regime change policy: Analyst

Even though US President Donald Trump has recently suggested that Washington is not seeking regime change in Iran, there is little indication to believe that the US has all the sudden decided to abandon a policy it has actively pursued over the past decades, say an American analyst.

Speaking to cabinet members in Washington Tuesday, Trump and his state secretary, Mike Pompeo spoke of “progress” and a “deal” with Iran, claiming that the current US administration was not seeking “regime change.”

Walt Peretto, a Washington-based writer and political analyst, said the sudden reversal of policy was not to be taken at face value and had underlying implications, specially after Trump spent the first three years of his presidency adopting hostile policies against Tehran.

“American foreign policy is based on the eventual establishment of a one world government by incremental erosion of national sovereignty around the world and invasion and regime change in any nation that is not accepting of political and economic globalization,” he told Press TV on Wednesday.

“Iran appears to be one of those nations not yet on board with trading sovereignty for global rule. So they will remain a target of America's globalist overlords even when a US president suddenly extends an olive branch for some expedient reason,” the analyst argued.

Peretto suggested that Trump was either looking to buy time to sort out issues that hindered a more aggressive policy towards Tehran or wanted to give Iran a false sense of security to let down its defenses.

“Trump and his handlers may have found reasons to buy time, or they may be trying to lull Tehran into a false sense of security, or they may be putting regime change on the back burner while concentrating on other concerns for the time being,” Peretto added.

Peretto argued that Washington had to choose dialogue over military confrontation because it was aware of the possible outcome of war with Iran.

“A war between Iran and the Western powers would likely disrupt oil shipping through the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman,” he said. “This potential deterrence may have to be 'resolved' in some way before committing to an all out invasion.”

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US President Donald Trump and his state secretary, Mike Pompeo, speak of “progress” and “deal” with Iran.

Another reason, according to Peretto, was the fact that Trump has always sought to undo what his predecessor, Barack Obama, did during his two terms in the White House.

“On the home front -- this move helps to distance the perception of Trump's foreign policy from his predecessor's foreign policy, by claiming that Obama sought regime change while Trump is not,” said the analyst.

“The perception of difference between parties is very important in the American political psyche, even though the US generally maintains consistent foreign policies despite which party is in power,” he argued.

He said countries like Iran got in the way of the US policy towards building a “single worldwide ruling power with one military, and one economic currency, all wrapped in a technological surveillance state,” where “individual sovereignty is given up for a collectivist tyranny.”

“Instead of belligerence toward Iran...we need to put into perspective the importance of their national sovereignty and begin to contemplate how to reverse this trend toward global rule and help reinforce human self-determination everywhere,” the analyst concluded.

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