{"id":325261,"date":"2026-03-24T07:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T07:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=325261"},"modified":"2026-03-26T07:11:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T07:11:37","slug":"israels-plot-for-regime-change-in-iran-has-collapsed-ny-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=325261","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s plot for \u2018regime change\u2019 in Iran has collapsed: NY Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Press TV \u2013 March 23, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Israel has failed in its plots to instigate a \u201cregime change\u201d in Iran by launching a joint aggression with the United States against the country, a report by the New York Times shows.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The report, published on Sunday, said the Israeli regime officials had thought that by persuading the US to launch a war on Iran, they could instigate large protests and riots that could lead to the collapse of the government.<\/p>\n<p>The report said David Barnea, head of the Israeli spy agency Mossad, had also presented the plan to senior US administration officials during a visit to Washington in mid-January.<\/p>\n<p>However, it said Iran\u2019s government has managed to successfully withstand the pressure caused by the aggression that began on February 28 while ramping up its capability to hit back at the enemies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe belief that Israel and the United States could help instigate widespread revolt was a foundational flaw in the preparations for a war that has spread across the Middle East,\u201d the Times said in its report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of imploding from within, Iran\u2019s government has dug in and escalated the conflict, striking blows and counterblows against military bases, cities, ships in the Persian Gulf, and against vulnerable oil and gas installations,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Meanwhile the response from Iran&#8217;s IRGC Aerospace Force to Trump&#8217;s 48-hour ultimatum to Iran to open its Strait of Hormuz, on an Iranian missile.<\/p>\n<p>Follow: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LWoNSpkc2J\">https:\/\/t.co\/LWoNSpkc2J<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TXHELBkW7Z\">pic.twitter.com\/TXHELBkW7Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Press TV \uf53b (@PressTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PressTV\/status\/2036041412722966724?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 23, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This comes as US President Donald Trump said in a speech just before starting the aggression on Iran that the war would soon lead to the collapse of the Iranian government and people would be able to take over the government.<\/p>\n<p>The NY Times report said US officials have largely abandoned speaking publicly about the prospects of a revolt inside Iran despite the fact that Benjamin Netanyahu is still dreaming that the US-Israeli aerial offensive will be aided by forces on the ground.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2026\/03\/23\/765753\/Israel-plot-for-regime-change-in-Iran-has-collapsed-NYTimes\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli officials thought that by persuading the US to launch a war on Iran, they could spark internal uprisings against the regime. Instead, the opposite has happened as ordinary Iranians rally against US\/Israeli aggression, and behind the Iranian government  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":303381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,51,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-Iran","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=325261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325263,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325261\/revisions\/325263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/303381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}