JAKARTA - United States President Donald Trump raised the issue of a regime change in Iran following the US attack on a number of nuclear facility sites. The US warned Tehran against taking retaliation.
"It's not politically appropriate to use the term, "Regime change," but if the current Iranian regime was unable to make IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn't there be a regime change? ? ? MIGA !!!" Trump wrote on his social media platform. reported by Reuters, Monday, June 23.
Trump's post comes after officials in his government, including US Vice President JD Vance and Defense Minister Pete Hegseth stressed the US was not trying to overthrow the Iranian government.
"This mission is not and will never aim to change the regime," Hegseth told reporters at the Pentagon.
He called the mission a "precision operation" targeting Iran's nuclear program.
Vance in an interview on NBC said "Our view is very clear that we don't want a regime change."
"We don't want to extend or expand this more than what has been built. We want to end their nuclear program, and then we want to talk to Iran about a long-term settlement here," Vance continued, saying the US was not interested in deploying troops on the ground.
The "Operation Midnight Hammer" is only known to a small number of people in Washington and at US military headquarters for Middle East operations in Tampa, Florida.
Equipped with a trick, seven B-2 bombers flew 18 hours from the United States to Iran to bring down 14 bunker-destroying bombs, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Karyare, told reporters.
In total, the US launched 75 precision-guided munitions, including more than two dozen Tomahawk missiles, and more than 125 military aircraft in operation against three nuclear sites,
The operation pushed the Middle East to the brink of a new major conflict in the region that has been raging for more than 20 months with wars in Gaza and Lebanon, and a dictator ousted in Syria.
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