PressTV-Haley denies Giuliani’s claim that US wants Iran ‘revolution’

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley says Washington is not seeking to overthrow Iran’s government, denying claims by President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani that the US favored a “revolution” in Iran.

“The United States is not looking to do a regime change in Iran,” Haley told CNN on Sunday. “We’re not looking to do regime change anywhere.”

Giuliani, Trump’s attorney and former mayor of New York City, told an anti-Iran event on Saturday that Trump’s policy of economic pressure and sanctions against Tehran could spur on a regime change.

“I don’t know when we’re going to overthrow them,” Giuliani said during the so-called Iran Uprising Summit at a hotel in Times Square. “It could be in a few days, months, a couple of years. But it’s going to happen.”

Giuliani’s remarks went against the Trump administration’s declared policy of not seeking a change of government in Iran despite…

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