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Mattis: Iran Needs Regime Change For Relations To Improve With US

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Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis briefs the press at the NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, June 29, 2017. (DOD photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jette Carr)
Mattis: Iran Needs Regime Change For Relations To Improve With US
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Regime change will be necessary before the U.S. and Iran can have substantially positive relations, according to Secretary of Defense James Mattis.

“Until the Iranian people can get rid of this theocracy, these guys who think they can tell the people even which candidates they get a choice of. It’s going to be very, very difficult,” Mattis told the Mercer Island High School Islander in a rare and special interview with high schooler Teddy Fischer.

Improving relations with Iran will be particularly difficult, according to Mattis. He noted that any potential rapprochement would be difficult because Iran is not really a democracy.

“It’s the supreme leader [who] decides who gets to run in,” said Mattis. “It would be like having the current American president decide who gets to run in the next campaign, and by the way, when they come in he stays in the White House and the others just kind of rotate through.”

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Mattis noted that the Iranian regime was his “biggest problem” while he commanded U.S. Central Command. The former has had no qualms about confronting the Iranian regime in the past, having once pursued a retaliatory strike on the country after it supplied rockets to Iraqi insurgents fighting U.S. troops in 2011, killing several. Mattis’ strike never happened, as his proposal was shot down by the Obama administration.

Today, he said everyone in the Middle East, from Tel Aviv to Cairo, has told him Iran continues to be a major problem. He added that the country’s malign influence has helped keep Syria’s dictator, Bashar al-Assad, in power, has escalated the conflict in Yemen by supplying ballistic missiles to Houthi rebels and continues to murder its own people.

“Iran is certainly the most destabilizing influence in the Middle East,” Mattis told the Mercer Island High School Islander.

Iran acts more like a “revolutionary movement” than a functional country looking out for the interests of its people, according to the secretary. It’s remarkably young population is known to have a less belligerent attitudetoward the U.S. and the West, compared to the zealotous religious leaders who dominate the country’s governance.

“The Iranian people are not the problem,” said Mattis.”The Iranian people are definitely not the problem, it’s the regime that sends agents around to murder ambassadors in Pakistan or in Washington D.C. It’s the regime that provides missiles to Lebanese Hezbollah or the Houthi in Yemen.”
 
I think there are more than a few countries who would like a regime change in all of middle east.

Americans are after their own regime so what you gonna do lol
 
Like what they did back in 1953 and overthrown first elected democratic government of Iran? or changes alongside democracy that American allies in our region enjoy and offer to their own people?some of the American allies in the region even have no constitution let alone election.
 
Interesting, would the iranian population support regime change (honest question) ?

Nope. The overwhelming majority of Iranians, even those who oppose the government, oppose any sort of regime change by foreign governments. We will not accept this meddling which is always for vested interests and nothing else.
 
thats good. I almost got the feeling that iranians suffer from the regime and wants to be liberated thats at least how these recent news come over with regime change u know

“The Iranian people are not the problem,” said Mattis.”The Iranian people are definitely not the problem, it’s the regime that sends agents around to murder ambassadors in Pakistan or in Washington D.C. It’s the regime that provides missiles to Lebanese Hezbollah or the Houthi in Yemen.”
 
Interesting, would the iranian population support regime change (honest question) ?
Consecutive elections with Iranian people high turn-out is clear , obviously people would always seek reforms for betterment of their lives but regime change formed and organized from outside no ...
Mattis either is a simpleton or a hypocrite, he talks about elections in Iran but mentions nothing about American allies stone age type of govenrments in the region or type of changes American have brought to the region so far from Afghanistan to Iraq and Libya ..


they will regime that spend all the money to arm hizballa and hamas instead in his people
think about this
All the money?
 
For sure people in Iran hate Trump.

The path for betterment goes this way:

1) A Human Friendly person should become the president of US (like Trodeau of Canada), who does not seem to warmongering monster like Trump.

2) The term of "Regime Change" is like a conspiracy theory for the ears of Iranian Nation.
Instead of using the word "Regime Change", they should ONLY ask for the "Reforms" in the election system i.e. no Supreme Leader and his council to choose or reject the candidates for presidency.

Actually Iranian Nation does not need the full regime change, but they only want the election reforms.
 
For sure people in Iran hate Trump.

The path for betterment goes this way:

1) A Human Friendly person should become the president of US (like Trodeau of Canada), who does not seem to warmongering monster like Trump.

2) The term of "Regime Change" is like a conspiracy theory for the ears of Iranian Nation.
Instead of using the word "Regime Change", they should ONLY ask for the "Reforms" in the election system i.e. no Supreme Leader and his council to choose or reject the candidates for presidency.

Actually Iranian Nation does not need the full regime change, but they only want the election reforms.
The point is it's not their concern, and why do they seek democracy in Iran while it has elections and not in their allies in the region which are absolute monarchy? hypocrite ...
 

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