How Trump’s Iran strategy departs from Iraq and Venezuela regime-change playbooks

President Donald Trump’s decision to launch military strikes on Iran while openly urging its citizens to overthrow their government marks a striking departure from decades of American regime-change strategy, signaling a more unpredictable phase in US foreign policy and raising profound questions about how Washington now seeks to reshape adversarial states. Historians and policy analysts…

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Is Khamenei alive? Trump claims killing, Iran denies as conflicting narratives deepen leadership crisis

Uncertainty surrounding the fate of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei intensified on Saturday after President Donald Trump declared that the cleric had been killed in a joint United States–Israeli military operation, while Iranian officials and state-linked media forcefully rejected the claim, describing it as psychological warfare. The competing narratives — one asserting a decisive…

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