Rep. Dan Bacon (R) said the only path to genuine change in Iran is the fall of the regime and that not one cent should go toward reconstruction while the ayatollahs remain in power, according to the source affiliated with right-wing media monitoring.
Rep. Dan Bacon (R), a Republican member of the U.S. Congress, issued a statement Monday morning rejecting any financial rehabilitation for Iran under the current regime. Bacon argued that every U.S. president has believed they could change the nature of Iran’s radical regime, but the “only real way for positive change is the fall of the regime.” Therefore, he said, “not one cent should be spent on rehabilitating Iran as long as the ayatollahs are still in power.”
The statement was shared via the source operated by a right-wing media monitoring account, which did not specify whether the statement was published in an official capacity or on social media. The broader context of ongoing U.S.-Iran negotiations has seen a wave of opposition from Republican figures and Israeli analysts (as The Zioneer has reported), though Bacon’s position aligns with the maximalist “regime change” view rather than the conditional-reconstruction approach floated by some Trump allies.
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