Trump said that "hopefully" this would give the Iranian People the courage and strength to take it upon themselves to take their country back. He also has iterated and reiterated multiple times, and so has Rubio, Hegseth, and others that timhis was never about regime change.

All these people claiming otherwise either haven't been paying attention, have clear wishes that this is about regime change, or are part of the wider narrative war to discredit the Trump Admin and the effectiveness of bombing IRGC missile and drone related sites into oblivion.