Trump talked about the people overthrowing the regime as he started the war. “”All I want is freedom for the people,” Trump told The Washington Post just hours after those first strikes.” “When Trump announced the strikes early on a Saturday morning, he called it the “single greatest chance” for the Iranian people to take back their country.” “He would echo those calls a few days later, calling on “Iranian patriots” to seize this moment. “America is with you. I made a promise to you, and I fulfilled that promise. The rest will be up to you, but we’ll be there to help,” he said on March 1.” Netanyahu also called on the Iranian people to rise up.
“But as the war continued into the third and fourth week, Trump has spoken less and less about the protesters and has made no recent calls for protesters to overthrow the government.”
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/25/nx-s1-5759721/how-trumps-iran-war-objectives-have-shifted-over-time