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Trump says Iran's government is in a "state of collapse," but analysts see evolution, not fractures
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Trump says Iran's government is in a "state of collapse," but analysts see evolution, not fractures

www.cbsnews.comΒ·Frank Andrews, Seyed Rahim BathaeiΒ·25 days ago
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President Trump has said "infighting and confusion" within Iran's ruling regime is partly why it's been so difficult to strike a deal to end the war launched by the U.S. and Israel on Feb. 28. Analysts tell CBS News, however, that while power structures are shifting, there's little evidence of divisions hampering Iran's leadership, and Mr. Trump's rhetoric may be more an effort to find a scapegoat as the White House grapples to present its own policy objectives. Trump says "nobody knows who is in charge" A month after former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the first wave of U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran, sparking a war that has shocked the global economy for more than two months, President Trump announced that regime change in Iran was "complete." "The next regime is mostly dead," he said just days after strikes began on Feb. 28, adding that U.S. negotiators were speaking to "a whole different group" of "very reasonable" people.…

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