Ex-US official: Trump’s Iran goal wasn’t regime change

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00:00Okay, and how do you rate their chances of surviving?

00:04I mean, have they been domestically weakened by what's happened, would you say?

00:10Do you think they can survive?

00:13Well, they've lost a lot of face with their own people.

00:16They have been domestically weakened.

00:20But the question will be, who would dislodge them and in what way?

00:23And there, I think there are more questions than answers that may well keep the regime in power.

00:28So do you think the United States has taken a decision here not to try to even serve as a catalyst to bring that about?

00:35And that if it happens, it happens because the Iranian people want it to happen.

00:39Would you say that's roughly the calculation that's been made here?

00:42Roughly. Yeah, I think they decided that that wouldn't be a goal of a military operation,

00:47but something left up to the Iranian people.

00:48And if they destabilize the regime a little bit through this and that leads in that direction, so be it.

00:54But I don't think it was a military goal. That was focused on the nuclear program.

00:58Let's hop.

00:59Despite the