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The investigative journalist Gareth Porter
says that US President Donald Trump,
whose favorable-rating among Americans is 37%, is determined that regime-change for Iran is needed - overthrowing Iran's Shia-moderate President Hassan Rouhani,
whose favorable-rating in Iran (see p. 10) is 62%.
This would hardly be out-of-character for the current US President. Trump is a far-right, neoconservative, leader, which means that he supports America's continuing to serve the interests of the fundamentalist-Sunni trillionaire Saud family who own Saudi Arabia, and of the Jewish billionaires who control Israel; and both of those aristocracies hate Shia, and especially hate the leading Shia nation, which is Iran, and intend to take it over.
Regime-change for Iran has been the US aristocracy's policy ever since 1979, and the billionaire liar Donald Trump won the White House by denying that he was a neoconservative - even his fellow-neoconservatives
believed his lies about that and came out
publicly backing the unashamed neoconservative Hillary Clinton (which helped to convince many of America's non-fascists to vote for Trump). Only few Americans are neoconservatives, but the few who are, are virtually all either American aristocrats or else lobbyists or other agents for same. Neoconservatism is the American aristocracy's foreign policy, and long has been.
Trump's public statements against neoconservatives and their polices, were a major part of the appeal he had to voters, and helped to fool many people to think he cared about people other than himself and his narrow tribe.
Comment: It does indeed look like the US set its sights on Iran (although its very unlikely that anything resembling a hot-war coming from the US or Israel will come about), but they are also in a position of declining influence. Europe and Russia have maintained that the Iran nuclear deal will stand against the US stomping of feet. Additionally, since US objectives in Syria are being dashed (no pun intended), their current operation is to maintain friction between Saudi Arabia and Iran by using Lebanon as a pawn. We'll have to wait and see how it all turns out.