Iran says US, 'Israel' goal still to overthrow Islamic republic

Iran's intelligence ministry said on Wednesday that the goal of the United States and 'Israel' remained to overthrow the Islamic republic and break up the country.

"The enemy is now pursuing through other means the objective of overthrowing and partitioning the country, which it openly declared at the beginning of the recent war but failed to achieve through military attack," the ministry said in a statement carried by Iranian media.