The president and his advisers are learning that regime change — especially through economic means — is easy to talk about but hard to achieve
Last year, Trump officials hoped that street protests in Iran might portend a popular revolt against Islamist rule there. National security adviser John Bolton more recently taunted Iran’s clerical leaders on the 40th anniversary of the country’s revolution, saying, “I don’t think you‘ll have many more anniversaries to enjoy.” But by most accounts, Iran’s government remains firmly in control.
“Any suggestion that the [regime change] effort is made-in-America, let alone made-by-the-Trump-administration, could be considered the kiss of death,” Malley said. “President Trump has made clear to Nicolás Maduro and those around him, ‘all options are on the table,’” BoltonThe administration has focused intensely on Venezuela in recent months, naming a special envoy, dispatching Pence and others to give speeches and rally the world to unite against Maduro’s government, which has styled itself as socialist but bankrupted the country’s economy through mismanagement and graft.
“We have understood that this is a struggle in Venezuela whose length we can’t predict,” Elliott Abrams, the Trump administration’s recently named special envoy for Venezuela, told reporters on Friday. “No one can predict it.”
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