A clergyman holds an Iranian flag during a rally on March 17, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. | Photo by Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images
The Trump administration’s end goals for the war in Iran, never particularly well-defined to begin with, appear to be narrowing.
While President Donald Trump once spoke ambitiously about regime change and insisted that he should play a role in selecting Iran’s next supreme leader — similar to Delcy Rodríguez in Venezuela — the White House now says the war will continue until Iran can “no longer pose a military threat.”
When will that be? Trump says he will “feel...
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