Trump Says Regime Change in Iran ‘Best Thing That Could Happen’

President Donald Trump said regime change would be the best outcome for Iran, ratcheting up pressure on the Islamic Republic in negotiations over its nuclear program as he builds up the US military presence in the region.

“It seems like that would be the best thing that could happen,” Trump told reporters Friday following an event at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Yet the president sidestepped a question about who he would like to take power in Iran, responding that he did not “want to talk about it.”

The US and Iran opened negotiations in Oman last week with Trump ...