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John Bolton, Iran’s foreign minister grapple over regime change in back-to-back interviews

By Zach Halaschak
Published April 28, 2019 3:06pm ET
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John Bolton, Iran’s foreign minister grapple over regime change in back-to-back interviews
John Bolton, national security advisor, listens during a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump and Jens Stoltenberg, secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), not pictured, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. U.S., on Thursday, May 17, 2018. The White House said the two leaders will be discussing the upcoming NATO Summit in July. | (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

National security adviser John Bolton and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif took shots at one another in back-to-back interviews on the topic of regime change in Iran.

Appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” Zarif discussed a group of countries and officials are pushing the United States to spur a conflict with Tehran. Among them, he said, are Bolton, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia.

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Iran Israel John Bolton Middle East United Arab Emirates