India, Feb. 25 -- Republican US Senator Ted Cruz asserted Tuesday that the governments of Iran, Venezuela and Cuba could collapse within months and be replaced by leadership aligned with Washington, delivering what he described as a historic geopolitical transformation.

"We are at a moment ... where in the next six months, we could realistically see the regimes in Iran, Venezuela and Cuba all fall, and we could see them replaced with governments that want to be friends with America," Cruz told CNBC.

The Texas senator's remarks come amid mounting economic, diplomatic and military pressure by the administration of US President Donald Trump on all three countries, each long considered adversarial to Washington's foreign policy agenda.

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