{"id":361024,"date":"2018-05-13T18:20:50","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T17:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/leaked-doc-reveals-white-house-planning-regime-change-in-iran\/"},"modified":"2018-05-13T18:20:50","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T17:20:50","slug":"leaked-doc-reveals-white-house-planning-regime-change-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/leaked-doc-reveals-white-house-planning-regime-change-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaked Doc Reveals White House Planning \u2018Regime Change\u2019 in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It appears Rudy Giuliani wasn’t lying.<\/p>\n

Just a few days after the former NYC mayor and latest member of President Trump’s\u00a0unexpectedly let it slip\u00a0that “we got a president who is tough, who does not listen to the people who are naysayers,\u00a0and a president who is committed to regime change [in Iran]”,\u00a0the\u00a0Washington Free Beacon<\/a><\/em>\u00a0has obtained a three-page white paper being circulated among National Security Council officials with drafted plans to\u00a0spark regime change in Iran, following the US exit from the Obama-era nuclear deal and the re-imposition of tough sanctions aimed at toppling the Iranian regime.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The plan, authored by the Security Studies Group, or SSG, a national security think-tank that has close ties to senior White House national security officials, including – who else – National Security Adviser John Bolton,\u00a0seeks to reshape longstanding American foreign policy toward Iran by emphasizing an explicit policy of regime change,\u00a0something the Obama administration opposed when popular protests gripped Iran in 2009, writes the Free Beacon<\/em>, which obtained a leaked copy of the circulating plans.<\/p>\n

The regime change plan seeks to fundamentally shift U.S. policy towards Iran and has found a receptive audience in the Trump administration, which has been moving in this direction since Bolton\u2014a longtime and vocal supporter of regime change\u2014entered the White House.<\/p>\n

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It deemphasizes U.S military intervention, instead focusing on a series of moves to embolden an…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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It appears Rudy Giuliani wasn’t lying. Just a few days after the former NYC mayor and latest member of President Trump’s\u00a0unexpectedly let it slip\u00a0that “we got a president who is tough, who does not listen to the people who are naysayers,\u00a0and a president who is committed to regime change [in Iran]”,\u00a0the\u00a0Washington Free Beacon\u00a0has obtained a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-361024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}