{"id":290268,"date":"2026-02-14T02:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T02:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/290268\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T02:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T02:11:07","slug":"donald-trump-regime-change-in-iran-best-thing-that-could-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/290268\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump: Regime change in Iran &#8216;best thing that could happen&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-886252\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> on Friday embraced the idea of regime change in Iran, telling reporters it &#8220;seems like that would be the best thing that could happen,&#8221; as Washington plans new talks with Tehran while also upping its military presence in the region.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">A US delegation, including envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, is set to meet with the Iranians on Tuesday morning in Geneva, according to a source briefed on the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">When asked what Iran should do to avoid attack, Trump said that Iran would need to &#8220;give us the right deal,&#8221; but that, despite Iran being willing to talk, historically, they haven&#8217;t agreed to give the right deals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;For 47 years they&#8217;ve been talking and talking, and in the meantime we&#8217;ve lost a lot of lives,&#8221; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>When asked for comment on sending a second aircraft carrier on Friday responded that &#8220;in case we don&#8217;t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-886533\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">make a deal<\/a>, we&#8217;ll need it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The president added that if a deal was made, the trip could be cut short, and that the aircraft carrier would be leaving &#8220;very soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he had a deadline for Iran, but did not specify further.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reuters contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump on Friday embraced the idea of regime change in Iran, telling reporters it &#8220;seems&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[54,42,87,59417,88393,145137,45061,43,7313,40,38,41,39,76279,127305],"class_list":["post-290268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-iran-news","tag-iran-nuclear-talks","tag-iran-us-nuclear-talks","tag-jared-kushner","tag-news","tag-steve-witkoff","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-us-iran","tag-us-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}