The United States is plotting to install pro-Western puppet regimes in sovereign and independent states like Iran, according to Stephen Lendman, an American journalist, writer and political analyst based in Chicago.

The US State Department has formed an “Iran Action Group” to coordinate and run an aggressive US policy toward the Islamic Republic on the eve of the 65th anniversary of a previous American action against Iran - the CIA-led 1953 coup against the democratically elected government of Mohammad Mosaddegh.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the creation of the “Iran Action Group” on Thursday, saying that the initiative would be "directing, reviewing and coordinating all aspects of the State Department's Iran-related activity."

“I call it the anti-Iran Action Plan for regime change,” Lendman told Press TV on Friday.

“For nearly 40 years, Washington had wanted to transfer Iran back to the way it was after the 1953 coup ousting the democratically elected Prime Minister Mossadegh,” he added.

“The problem America has with Iran is that it’s sovereign, independent. That’s what it is all about. Washington wants control over all other nations. All the independent ones are targeted for regime change. Washington wants pro-Western puppet regimes replacing them,” he stated.

“It’s all about Iran’s sovereign independence. The Trump regime is destabilizing the situation in Iran right now. It tried to do this early in the year, doing it again. This is all America’s doing. People everywhere may be upset about one policy or another of their governments, and virtually in every single country in the world. It doesn’t mean to go out in the street and do anything violently or anything else,” the journalist said.

“What has happened in Iran, what’s happening a little bit and probably will happen more on, this all has been orchestrated from the outside, orchestrated by Washington, orchestrated by the CIA and the National Endowment for Democracy. And again it’s because the US policy towards Iran which includes illegal sanctions on the country,” he noted.

According to reports, the “Iran Action Group” will be headed by senior policy adviser Brian Hook, who is currently the State Department's director of policy planning. He will report directly to Pompeo.

Pompeo said that the State Department is committed to a whole of government effort to change Tehran’s “behavior."

Pompeo’s announcement falls on the 65th anniversary of the CIA coup against Mossadegh. The 1953 United States covert action overthrew Mossadegh in favor of strengthening the monarchical rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi on August 19, 1953.