As the Israeli strike against Iran has heated up, the two best-known expatriate leaders of resistance to the theocratic regime have called for its overthrow. In calling for regime change, both Maryam Rajavi, president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, and Reza Pahlavi, son of the last Shah (king) of Iran, each offered not-so-subtle hints that they want to play a role in the governance of the new Iran.
But Steve Bannon, onetime counselor to President Donald Trump and host of the much-viewed podcast “The War Room,” told Newsmax Wednesday he feels the next government in Tehran should be exclusively in the hands of the Iranian people.
Asked at a press breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor who should be running Iran if Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is deposed, Bannon replied: “Who in this city even knows? It hasn’t been an issue since last Thursday.” Israel commenced its bombing strike against Iran in the early hours of Friday, while it was still Thursday in the U.S.
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