"The Trump administration is posing as if its primary motivation is to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons as part of a wider narrative regarding US leadership in maintaining peace and stability worldwide. In reality, this most recent escalation is part of a wider US policy spanning multiple presidential administrations aimed at dismantling Iran’s network of allies across the region, isolating Iran, before pursuing regime change operations against Iran itself."

References:

NEO - Trump’s Threats Against Iran Exposes US Continuity of Agenda (Apr. 3, 2025):

https://journal-neo.su/2025/04/03/tru...

NY Times - U.S. STRATEGY PLAN CALLS FOR INSURING NO RIVALS DEVELOP (1992):

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/08/wo...

CIA - THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

AND THE FALL OF IRANIAN PRIME MINISTER MOHAMMED MOSSADEQ, AUGUST 1953 (1998):

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/...

RAND Corporation - Dangerous But Not Omnipotent (2009):

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand...

Brookings Institution - Which Path to Persia? (2009):

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/...

US State Department, Office of the Historian - Atomic Diplomacy:

https://history.state.gov/milestones/...

White House Archives - President Donald J. Trump is Ending United States Participation in an Unacceptable Iran Deal (May 2018):

https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/...

CNN - Trump gives Iran two-month deadline to reach new nuclear deal (Mar. 19, 2025):

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/19/po...

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