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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px;display:block" width="960"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1774834067503photo-collage.pngcc_cropped_processed_by_imagy.png" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">US President Donald Trump and Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran&#x27;s new supreme leader. 📷༘ Jim Watson/AFP and Khamenei.IR via AFP<br/></span></span></span></div><p>WASHINGTON, United States — US President Donald Trump said Sunday that the US-Israel war had achieved regime change in Iran, even as he assured that he would &quot;make a deal&quot; with the Iranians.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/world/2026/3/9/iran-names-khamenei-s-son-as-new-supreme-leader-0801">Iran names Khamenei&#x27;s son as new supreme leader</a></div><p>&quot;I think we&#x27;ll make a deal with them, pretty sure... but we&#x27;ve had regime change,&quot; Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, citing the number of Iranian leaders killed in the month-long war.</p><p>&quot;We&#x27;re dealing with different people than anybody&#x27;s dealt with before. It&#x27;s a whole different group of people. So I would consider that regime change,&quot; Trump said.</p><p>Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of former supreme leader Ali Khamenei who was killed in an airstrike at the start of the war on February 28, was tapped to be the country&#x27;s third supreme leader since the 1979 Islamic revolution.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/world/2026/3/30/strikes-knock-out-power-in-tehran-as-iran-says-us-plotting-ground-invasion-0730">Strikes knock out power in Tehran as Iran says US plotting ground invasion</a></div><p>Ever since the conflict kicked off with US-Israeli strikes on Iran, Tehran has effectively shut down the Strait of Hormuz, through which about 20 percent of the world&#x27;s oil and gas transits.</p><p>The closure has sent global oil prices soaring, but Trump said that relief was on the way in the form of concessions from Iran, starting with the imminent passage of several tankers through the key waterway.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/world/2026/3/11/iran-s-new-supreme-leader-safe-and-sound-despite-war-injury-reports-president-s-son-1545">Iran&#x27;s new supreme leader &#x27;safe and sound&#x27; despite war injury reports — president&#x27;s son</a></div><p>&quot;They gave us, I think, out of a sign of respect, 20 boats of oil, big, big boats of oil going through the Hormuz Strait,&quot; Trump said, adding that the shipments would be &quot;taking place starting tomorrow morning, over the next couple of days.&quot;</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div><div><br/></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/H8LrmCkn9oA?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tQqz1LajCno?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div>

<p>US President Donald Trump said Sunday that the US-Israel war had achieved regime change in Iran, even as he assured that he would "make a deal" with the Iranians.</p>

US President Donald Trump said Sunday that the US-Israel war had achieved regime change in Iran, even as he assured that he would "make a deal" with the Iranians.

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Trump claims Iran has undergone 'regime change'

Agence France-Presse

Published March 30, 2026 09:29 AM PHT

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Updated March 30, 2026 11:23 AM PHT

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