{"id":501264,"date":"2026-03-01T22:43:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T02:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/trump-claims-that-a-transition-like-venezuelas-is-the-perfect-scenario-for-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T22:43:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T02:43:35","slug":"trump-claims-that-a-transition-like-venezuelas-is-the-perfect-scenario-for-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/trump-claims-that-a-transition-like-venezuelas-is-the-perfect-scenario-for-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump claims that a transition like Venezuela&#8217;s is the &#8220;perfect scenario&#8221; for Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>New York.- The President of the United States, Donald Trump<\/strong>, stated this Sunday that a transition like the one in Venezuela, after US forces arrested <strong>Nicol\u00e1s Maduro in Caracas,<\/strong> is the &#8220;perfect scenario&#8221; for Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n<strong>&#8220;What we did in Venezuela, I think, is the perfect scenario&#8221;<\/strong>, Trump assured in a phone interview with The New York Times.\n\nAsked about the transition model to be implemented in Iran, after the joint US and Israeli operation ended the life of the supreme leader, the <strong>Ayatollah Ali Khamenei<\/strong>, the president highlighted what he considers successes of the operation in Venezuela and suggested his intention to replicate some aspects.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/Aseguran que el expresidente iran\u00ed Mahmud Ahmadineyad muri\u00f3 en los ataques\">http:\/\/Aseguran que el expresidente iran\u00ed Mahmud Ahmadineyad muri\u00f3 en los ataques<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe NYT points out that Trump&#8217;s advisors would have warned him of the cultural and historical differences between both countries that make it impossible to replicate the strategy.\n\nEven so, the Republican insisted on the idea of using the Caracas model for Tehran in which only by overthrowing the leader did he get more cooperation with his country.\n\n<strong>&#8220;Everyone kept their jobs, except for two people,&#8221;<\/strong> he said.\n\nThe leader stated that he has &#8220;three very good options&#8221; to lead Iran, although he preferred to keep the names to himself.\n\n&#8220;I won&#8217;t reveal them now. Let&#8217;s finish the job first,&#8221; he asserted.\n\nTrump expressed confidence that Iran&#8217;s elite forces, including the Revolutionary Guard, would hand over their weapons to the Iranian population, who he asserted depend on the decision to overthrow the government, something that would differ from the Venezuela model.\n\n&#8220;They&#8217;ve been talking about it for years, so now, obviously, they&#8217;ll have the opportunity,&#8221; he commented.\n\nThe president lamented the death of the three U.S. soldiers and insisted that more could occur, but he did not appear weak and assured that the Pentagon has forces to extend the operation &#8220;if necessary&#8221;.\n\n&#8220;It won&#8217;t be difficult,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We have a huge amount of ammunition. As you know, we have ammunition stored in different countries around the world.&#8221;\n\nTrump celebrated having &#8220;destroyed a large part&#8221; of the Iranian Navy and assured that both the U.S. and Israel have done &#8220;very well&#8221;: &#8220;I would say we are quite ahead of schedule.&#8221;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York.- The President of the United States, Donald Trump, stated this Sunday that a transition like the one in Venezuela, after US forces arrested Nicol\u00e1s Maduro in Caracas, is the &#8220;perfect scenario&#8221; for Iran. &#8220;What we did in Venezuela, I think, is the perfect scenario&#8221;, Trump assured in a phone interview with The New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[15925,15241,40230,110],"class_list":["post-501264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-international","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-united-states","tag-venezuela"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-26oU","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}