In an interview with GB News on June 15, published in the London Post news portal on June 17, former MI6 Chief Sir Richard Dearlove, says regime change “is in the cards” for Iran, and this will ensure the desired “tectonic changes” in the entire Middle East. He points to what were obviously the intelligence and espionage operations carried out inside Iran which facilitated Israel’s June 13 attack, which he claims was “brilliant.”
According to him, the nature of these operations shows that the Iranian government is in a state of “deterioration” and “rotten from the inside,” and so it’s relatively easy “to recruit spies, to recruit agents to carry out this sort of activity. But having said that, these operations show a very high degree of operational sophistication, in terms of their planning and their execution. They really are quite remarkable.” He cites past Israeli operations, such as the penetration of Hezbollah, as also remarkable—a “classic very clever operation.”
As for Iran, “I think regime change is in the cards. I think the Israelis will take out the Supreme Leader [Ayatollah Ali Khamenei] if they can” as they did Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s former secretary general, in Beirut. Dearlove thus sees regime change as “the sort of last chapter in a shift of the tectonic plates in the Middle East, the taking down of Hezbollah, the diminution of Hamas. It’s a sequence of events, the collapse of the regime in Syria, and now this attack on the regime in Iran.” He is quite certain there never was any rapprochement among the Saudis, Egyptians and Jordanians because he proclaims, they are “doing nothing” in Iran’s defense. “This is still a war to the end between Sunni and Shi’a Islam, and the Iranians, I think, are in a very, very bad and difficult situation. Now they’re running out of options.”
