Trump sees Iran regime change likely if leaders stay the course, Rubio says

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday the Iranian people may overthrow their rulers if they don't reform but insisted there is no US plan to bring about regime change.

"What the President said is, if the regime in Iran does not wants to keep spending money on terrorism, keep spending money on trying to get nuclear weapons, keep spending money on rockets to attack Israel and not develop their economy or help their people, maybe there will be regime change, because the people of Iran are going to get sick of it," Rubio said.

“The world is filled with regimes I don’t like and the president doesn’t like, and many of us wish didn’t exist. The United States’ job is not to go around and set up governments for every country,” Rubio told Politico in an interview at the Hague.

“Our national security issue with Iran is with a clerical regime that wants nuclear weapons so they can threaten us and Israel today and threaten us tomorrow."

"And the president has made clear that’s not going to happen,” he added.