Trump allies push White House to consider regime change in Tehran

[Snarkoleptic]

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/25/trump-iran-foreign-policy-regime-change-239930

“The policy of the United States should be regime change in Iran,” said Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), who speaks regularly with White House officials about foreign policy. “I don’t see how anyone can say America can be safe as long as you have in power a theocratic despotism,” he added.

Cotton advocated a combination of economic, diplomatic and covert actions to pressure Tehran’s government and “support internal domestic dissent” in the country. He noted that Iran has numerous minority ethnic groups, including Arabs, Turkmen and Balochs who “aren’t enthusiastic about living in a Persian Shiite despotism.”

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson appeared to endorse subverting the Iranian regime during recent testimony about the State Department’s budget when Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) asked the diplomat whether the Trump administration supports “a philosophy of regime change” in Iran.

[secondwind]

1. Oh fuck. Here we go again

[ck4829]

2. What's one more destabilized country in that region going to do, right?

[Nevernose]

8. Raise the price of oil.

Simple, really.

[ck4829]

9. Give Daesh a bigger playground

[malaise]

3. Haven't they killed enough fucking people

across the planet?

[gordianot]

4. Clean your own house before you clean others.

When the current Trump executive branch actually got millions fewer votes, sought and acquired foreign intervention in an election and most likely breaks the laws of the United States daily.

[Turbineguy]

5. If Putin can do it here

why shouldn't we do it there?

Republican logic I guess.

[KingCharlemagne]

6. When we do it, it's 'foreign policy' and not 'terrorism' - nt

[RKP5637]

7. Must have a big MIC portfolio! Go USA, War Nation! FFS, all i've heard my entire life is the US at

war with someone. Now, the US is into decade wars, big money for some!!!