Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during an election night event at the West Palm Beach Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, on November 6, 2024. Republican former president Donald Trump closed in on a new term in the White House early November 6, 2024, just needing a handful of electoral votes to defeat Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
Washington, D.C. – The White House has reaffirmed that the United States is not pursuing regime change in Iran, following comments made by former President Donald Trump that sparked international speculation.
On Sunday, Trump appeared to suggest, for the first time publicly, the possibility of supporting the Iranian people against their government. However, in a press briefing on Monday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt emphasized that the administration’s policy remains unchanged.
“The President’s posture and our military posture has not changed,” Leavitt told reporters, stressing that Trump’s statement was rhetorical, not a shift in U.S. foreign policy.
She clarified that the former president was expressing a sentiment echoed by many around the globe: “The president was simply raising a question that I think many people around the world are asking — if the Iranian regime refuses to give up its nuclear program or engage in talks, if they refuse to engage in diplomacy moving forward, why shouldn’t the Iranian people rise up against this brutal terrorist regime?”
Leavitt’s remarks aimed to quell growing concerns that the U.S. might be moving toward a more aggressive stance amid ongoing tensions with Tehran.
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