Report: US Increasingly Regards Iran Protests as Having Potential to Overthrow Regime

United States President Donald J Trump in White House in Washington, DC, USA, on Thursday, December 18, 2025. Photo: Aaron Schwartz via Reuters Connect.

i24 News – The assessment in Washington of the strength and scope of the Iran protests has shifted after Thursday’s turnout, with US officials now inclined to grant the possibility that this could be a game changer, Axios reported on Friday.

“The protests are serious, and we will continue to monitor them,” an unnamed senior US official was quoted as saying in the report.