President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Iran’s regime is “getting weaker and weaker by the day” and suggested Tehran may be nearing the limits of what it can withstand under mounting U.S. pressure, one day after calling on Iranians to “rise up and fight.”
\n\nThe remarks marked an escalation in Trump’s increasingly explicit focus on pressure building inside Iran, as Washington combines economic isolation, control of the Strait of Hormuz and overwhelming military leverage in a campaign senior administration officials say could leave Tehran facing internal fracture, popular revolt or a return to negotiations on U.S. terms.
\n\nAsked in the Oval Office whether he would send the CIA into Iran to arm Iranians after urging them to rise against the regime, Trump declined to say.
\n\n“I wouldn’t want to say that,” Trump replied. “I’d love to tell you that, but it wouldn’t be appropriate to say.”
\n\nTrump said the reason Iranians have not mounted a larger challenge to the regime is that Tehran responds to demonstrations with lethal force, pointing to the violent crackdown on the mass protest movement that shook the country before the current conflict began.
\n\n“When I ask that question, I ask it sort of knowing the…
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