{"id":316354,"date":"2026-03-01T13:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T13:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/316354\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T13:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T13:48:10","slug":"trump-urges-regime-change-as-irans-supreme-leader-is-killed-after-u-s-israel-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/316354\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump urges regime change as Iran&#8217;s supreme leader is killed after U.S., Israel attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"8s\">For more than 70 years, the United States has had a complex and often hostile relationship with Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"8v\">In 1953, the CIA helped engineer a coup, which toppled Iran\u2019s democratically-elected prime minister and put power firmly in the hands of its monarch, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, who opened his country to American oil companies and aligned with the U.S. in the Cold War.\u00a0But the Shah ruled through repression, and in 1979 was overthrown in the Iranian Revolution.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/260301-Shah-Mohammed-Reza-Pahlavi-mb-1159-7866d0.jpg\" width=\"780\" height=\"521\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\" alt=\"The Carters Host The Shah &amp; Shahbanu Of Iran For A State Visit\" class=\"block\" q:id=\"8z\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption mb-0 _caption_1r9t6_8\" q:key=\"Gg_6\">Shah of Iran Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and President Jimmy Carter shake hands in the White House in 1977.\u00a0  Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"95\">Iran\u2019s new supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini branded the United States as \u201cthe Great Satan,\u201d while a group of radical Islamist students seized control of the American embassy in Tehran and took 52 Americans hostage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"98\">For 444 days, the U.S. was consumed by the hostage crisis, with the yellow ribbon at home becoming a symbol of the Americans held overseas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/260301-iran-hostage-mb-1203-ff60af.jpg\" width=\"780\" height=\"521\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\" alt=\"Hostages Being Led by Blindfold\" class=\"block\" q:id=\"9c\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption mb-0 _caption_1r9t6_8\" q:key=\"Gg_6\">Blindfolded hostages inside the United States embassy compound in Tehran in 1979.\u00a0  Bettmann Archive<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"9i\">Jimmy Carter ordered U.S. special forces to rescue the hostages, but the mission ended in disaster, with U.S. aircraft colliding in the desert. A covert effort to extract six U.S. diplomats did succeed and was immortalized in the Oscar-winning Ben Affleck movie \u201cArgo.\u201d But the hostage crisis helped sink Carter\u2019s presidency, and the hostages were finally released minutes after Ronald Reagan took the oath of office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"9l\">In the 1980s, the U.S. supported Saddam Hussein\u2019s Iraq during a bloody eight-year war against Iran, while Iranian-backed militants targeted the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 241 American service personnel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/260301-iran-hostage-crisis-mb-1201-7b5336.jpg\" width=\"780\" height=\"521\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\" alt=\"Free After 444 Days\" class=\"block\" q:id=\"9p\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption mb-0 _caption_1r9t6_8\" q:key=\"Gg_6\">Freed hostages welcomed back to the United States after 444 days.\u00a0Express \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"9v\">Since then, the U.S. has branded Iran a state sponsor of terror.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"9y\">After yesterday\u2019s attack, a new chapter in this complicated relationship is being written in fire and smoke.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For more than 70 years, the United States has had a complex and often hostile relationship with Iran.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-316354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316354","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=316354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}