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Iran’s exiled Prince Reza Pahlavi said on Saturday that he is ready to lead Iran’s revolution “as soon as the Islamic Republic falls.”
As the war in Iran enters its third week, Pahlavi – the son of the late Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi – said he has been working in recent months to develop a transition plan if the Iranian regime falls to ensure the country does not experience disruptions in governance.
Pahlavi said on social media that “talented people” inside and outside Iran had been identified to lead what he called a “reform process.”
“The reform program, under my leadership, will be ready to govern the country as soon as the Islamic Republic falls and, in the shortest possible time, establish order, security, freedom and the conditions for the prosperity and prosperity of Iran,” he said.
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Iran’s exiled Prince Reza Pahlavi said on March 14 that he is ready to lead Iran’s revolution if the current regime falls. (JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images)
Pahlavi has lived in exile since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that overthrew the Iranian monarchy and established the Islamic Republic.
In recent years he has sought to position himself as a unifying opposition figure and has said he will help guide the transition of power from autocracy to democracy in Iran.
In a message addressed to his “compatriots,” Pahlavi said his plan to manage the country would fall under the framework of the “Iran Prosperity Project.”
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In this photo obtained by Iran’s ISNA news agency, Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, looks on in Tehran on October 13, 2024. (Hamed JAFARNEJAD / ISNA / AFP via Getty Images)
He said that many of our people with important knowledge and expertise have declared their “readiness to participate in the reconstruction of the country and to serve the country.”
Since the start of the joint operation between the US and Israel, about 50 government figures have been killed, including the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
His son, Mojtaba Khamenei, was elected this week by Iran’s Assembly of Experts as the country’s new leader.
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Reza Pahlavi, Iran’s exiled prince, said the Islamic Republic is “collapsing” and called for a democratic transition following recent US and Israeli strikes. (Paul Morigi/Getty Images)
In an appearance last week on Fox News’ “My Opinion” with Lara Trump, Pahlavi said that the Iranian people will not accept any further consequences associated with the current regime.
“Only a clean break will ensure that not only do we get a democratic solution and other exceptions to this regime, but there will be people who are not in any form or situation directly related to this regime,” he said.
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Pahlavi said the Iranian people must decide the leadership of their country and that “only the ballot box should determine the outcome and who will face our country in the future.”
“I think what we would expect from any government, including, of course, the current Trump administration is to realize that the best way to help the Iranian people is to allow them to make that choice freely and support that choice as a Western democracy, as the best democracy in the world,” he said.
