John Bolton

Well, thanks for having me.

Well, I've had the privilege to serve in a number of senior U.S.

government officials going back to the Reagan and first Bush administration, second Bush administration.

I was undersecretary of state for arms control and international security.

Then I was U.S.

ambassador to the U.N.

And I served in the first Trump term as a national security advisor for 17 months.

I was his longest serving national security advisor.

Well, what I support is a policy of regime change in Iran.

And I've held that view for many years because I don't think there's any chance the current regime will change its behavior on two critical fronts.

It's not going to give up its pursuit of nuclear weapons, which threaten Israel, the United States, really the whole world.

And it's not going to give up on its pursuit of terrorism, its support of terrorist groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Shia militia in Iran.

Iraq and conducting terrorist operations around the world.

I think we've got decades of evidence that their behavior is not going to change.

When you're confronted with that kind of threat, danger, and behavior isn't going to change, the alternative is change the regime.

I think the regime is in its weakest position since any time after it took power in 1979.

The economy is a mess.

The young people, they can see they can have a different kind of life.

Two-thirds of the population is under 30.

The women are enormously dissatisfied since the death of Masi Amini.