Iran’s exiled crown prince and opposition leader Reza Pahlavi said the current wave of nationwide protests rocking the Islamic Republic insists regime change now is closer than ever.
Iran’s exiled crown prince and opposition leader Reza Pahlavi said the current wave of nationwide protests rocking the Islamic Republic would not be happening without President Trump — and insists regime change now is closer than ever.
“President Trump’s words of support for the Iranian people have mattered,” Pahlavi exclusively told The Post. “They have given courage to Iranians who are risking their lives for freedom. This moment would not exist without the pressure that has been placed on the Islamic Republic.”
As protesters chant against the ayatollahs in cities, towns and villages across Iran, Pahlavi said the contrast between the regime and the people could not be clearer.
“The ayatollahs chant ‘Death to America.’ The Iranian people feel very differently,” he said. “They want a free country that is at peace with the world — including with the United States and Israel.”
Pahlavi, whose father Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was Shah of Iran until the Islamic Revolution ousted him in 1979, accused the regime of slaughtering civilians to cling to power, saying “hundreds, maybe thousands” of unarmed Iranians have been killed in recent days.
While welcoming US action to defend civilians and disrupt the regime’s machinery of repression, he drew a firm line: “We do not need foreign boots on the ground.
