Trump claims no regime change goal in Iran
EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France
US President Donald Trump attends a work lunch as part of the G7 summit, in Evian, eastern France, on June 16, 2026. (AFP)
U.S. President Donald Trump said on June 16 that that he “never cared about regime change” in Iran as an objective of the U.S.-Israeli campaign against Tehran, while also arguing that the scale of losses among senior Iranian officials effectively amounted to regime change in practice.
“You talk about regime change. I never cared about regime change. It [was] never a part. But I guess you have regime change because you know better than anybody, the first group, they’re all dead,” he said during the G7 summit.
