A top Obama Administration official has said that tougher sanctions against Iran over its defiance on its nuclear programme could trigger regime change in Tehran. "We are not actively engineering regime change in the sense that we believe that the people of Iran will carve out their own destiny," National Security Advisor General (rtd) James Jones told the Fox News in an interview yesterday. "We support pro-democracy. We know that,internally,that there's a very serious problem. We're about to add to that regime's difficulties by engineering,participating in,very tough sanctions which we support,not mild sanctions. These are very tough sanctions. The combination of those things could well trigger regime change. It's possible," Jones said in response to a question. "The combination of internal and external problems is certainly not going to make life easier for the government of Iran," he said. Last week,the Obama Administration had slapped additional sanctions on Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards. The US is also seriously moving towards passing tougher sanctions against Iran through the UN Security Council. "We are going through the UN this month to present sanctions and to seek solidarity. We have tremendous support," Jones said,adding the US needs to work on China a little bit more. "But China wants to be seen as a responsible global influence in this. On this issue,they cannot be non supportive."
