{"id":57091,"date":"2026-01-12T13:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=57091"},"modified":"2026-01-12T13:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:13:07","slug":"ron-paul-will-trump-use-us-military-for-iran-regime-change-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/12\/ron-paul-will-trump-use-us-military-for-iran-regime-change-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul: Will Trump Use US Military for Iran &#8216;Regime Change&#8217; Operation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>On today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@RonPaulLibertyReport\">Ron Paul Liberty Report<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>President Trump has pledged to use force against the Iranian government if he decides that too many protesters in that country have been killed. Is it a realistic threat? Will he launch yet another regime change operation in just the first month of the year? Also today, US oil executives pledge to invest in Venezuela \u2013 with American government guarantees.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/prZ2aaXRNJ4?si=gOa3FYlhJMLemHqU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today\u2019s Ron Paul Liberty Report: President Trump has pledged to use force against the Iranian government if he decides that too many protesters in that country have been killed. Is it a realistic threat? Will he launch yet another regime change operation in just the first month of the year? Also today, US oil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[767],"class_list":["post-57091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"0","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57091"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57096,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57091\/revisions\/57096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57091"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=57091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}