Some Iranians skeptical US has given up hopes for regime change

Recent comments by Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that the United States would pursue regime change if it could, indicate that the top Iranian leadership will continue to seek guarantees the United States is not after regime change if the two countries are to improve ties.
Iraqi women walk past a poster depicting images of Shi'ite Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at al-Firdous Square in Baghdad February 12, 2014. An Iraqi daily newspaper stopped publishing after two bombs were planted in the entrance to its headquarters in Baghdad on Monday and after threats from an Iranian-backed Shi'ite militia. Editors and reporters at Assabah AlJadeed said they had received death threats from the influential Asaib al-Haq militia in response to what it had described as an "insu
Iraqi women walk past a poster depicting images of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at al-Firdous Square in Baghdad, Feb. 12, 2014. - REUTERS/Ahmed Saad
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TEHRAN, Iran — In his latest address In Tehran, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the most powerful politician in the country, said the United States’ hostile policy toward the Islamic Republic has not changed a bit through recent decades, and that US officials need to do much more to win the Iranians’ trust back.

At a Feb. 8 ceremony to mark the 35th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Khamenei condemned the United States for pursuing a “regime change” strategy in Iran, and warned domestic officials to remain cautious while negotiating with their US counterparts over the Iranian nuclear energy program.

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