Trump claims regime change in Iran but ideology unchanged, former US diplomat says

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President Donald Trump has said that the US has achieved regime change in Iran, claiming that the country is now run by "totally different group of people" who are "much more reasonable" and "smarter." "One regime is gone, another regime is gone, we're dealing with the third," Trump said. "Pieces of it, because some of them are gone too." In an interview on Al Jazeera, former senior US diplomat Ambassador Joey Hood, who served as ambassador to Tunisia and acting director of Iranian affairs at the State Department, said that while the members of the regime have changed following the killing of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and other senior officials, "what has not apparently changed is the ideology of the regime and its approach to the rest of the world." He argued that Iran has become "less flexible" because new leaders "have to look over their shoulders at the other guy." Hood pointed to former Iranian presidents Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mohammad Khatami, and former prime minister Mir-Hosse

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