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Iranian crown prince urges uprising against ‘collapsing’ regime
Jns ^ | 17th June 2025 | Jns

Posted on 06/17/2025 7:50:01 PM PDT by Cronos

Reza Pahlavi said he prepared a 100-day transition plan for establishing democratic rule, "by the Iranian people and for the Iranian people."

Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of the last Shah of Iran, urged the country’s security forces and state employees to rise up against the Islamic regime, whose “fall has begun” in an “address to the Iranian nation” on Tuesday.

“My fellow countrymen, the Islamic Republic has reached its end and is in the process of collapsing,” Pahlavi said in remarks in Farsi that were posted on his social-media channels. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, “like a frightened rat, has gone into hiding underground and has lost control,” he stated.

According to the crown prince, “the end of the Islamic Republic is the end of its 46-year war against the Iranian nation” that started in 1979.

“All it takes now is a nationwide uprising to put an end to this nightmare once and for all,” he continued. “Now is the time to rise and reclaim Iran.”

Pahlavi noted that he prepared a 100-day transition plan for establishing democratic rule, “by the Iranian people and for the Iranian people.”

Addressing security forces and state employees, Pahlavi urged them to “not stand against the Iranian people for the sake of a regime whose fall has begun and is inevitable.”

“By standing with the people, you can save your lives,” he stated. “Play a historic role in the transition from the Islamic Republic and take part in building the future of Iran.”

“A free and flourishing Iran lies ahead of us. May we be together soon. Long live Iran. Long live the Iranian nation,” his remarks concluded.

‘Your hour of freedom is near’

On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had told the London-based Iran International opposition outlet that the regime’s days were numbered, saying Tehran could be made “great again.”

“I believe in you. I respect you. I admire you. I know your achievements. I know your potential. I know that Iran can be great again. It was a great civilization, and this theological thuggery that has kidnapped your country will not stand for long, and you are the future, not them,” Netanyahu said in a conversation with anchor Pouria Zeraati.

“A light has been lit—carry it to freedom,” the longtime Israeli leader declared. “Your hour of freedom is near; it’s happening now.”

“These dictators in Iran, sure they fear us—but they fear you, the people of Iran, even more,” Netanyahu said. “They understand that 80 percent of Iranians despise them.”

In a separate interview with Fox News on Sunday, Netanyahu said that regime change “could certainly be the result” of the campaign in Iran.

“The Persian people and the Jewish people have had an ancient friendship that goes back to the times of Cyrus the Great; that could happen again,” Netanyahu told Fox, while saying that “the decision to act, to rise up, at this time is the decision of the Iranian people.”

Jerusalem launched “Operation Rising Lion” against the Iranian regime because intelligence indicated that Tehran had amassed enough highly enriched uranium for nine bombs, the premier said in the interview.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Iran; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alikhamenei; amiga; crozeeper; cyrusthegreat; iran; oprisinglion; pahlavi; pouriazeraati; rezapahlavi; risinglion; supremeleader; zeraati
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“The Persian people and the Jewish people have had an ancient friendship that goes back to the times of Cyrus the Great; that could happen again,” Netanyahu told Fox,
1 posted on 06/17/2025 7:50:01 PM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos

Kings,meh!


2 posted on 06/17/2025 7:54:11 PM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than saving to WORK of !US:-)p)
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To: Cronos

Let’s hope Iran can come out of its 46 year nightmare.


3 posted on 06/17/2025 7:54:30 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Cronos

Make Iran Persia Again.


4 posted on 06/17/2025 7:56:52 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Cronos

“The Persian people and the Jewish people have had an ancient friendship that goes back to the times of Cyrus the Great; that could happen again.” That would be good.


5 posted on 06/17/2025 7:57:11 PM PDT by River Hawk
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To: ansel12

Oh it’s on. Videos of people burning the Ayatollah posters without fear of reprisal. He better surrender before his own people drag his broken corpse through the streets.


6 posted on 06/17/2025 7:58:02 PM PDT by Kudsman (I am Coal baby! Burning for you. )
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To: Cronos

I pray to our Heavenly Father that unlike Obama and other world leaders who saw the chance to give Iran back to the Iranian people and chose not to help them that the leaders of today will not falter and give the Persian people the chance to reclaim their nation for themselves. In Jesus name, Amen!


7 posted on 06/17/2025 8:00:52 PM PDT by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God. ROLL TIDE!!)
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To: Cronos

From Wiki:
Pahlavi has used his high profile as an Iranian abroad to campaign for human rights, democracy, and unity among Iranians in and outside Iran.[21] On his website, he calls for a separation of religion and state in Iran and free and fair elections “for all freedom-loving individuals and political ideologies”. He exhorts all groups dedicated to a democratic agenda to work together for a democratic and secular Iranian government.[22]


8 posted on 06/17/2025 8:12:58 PM PDT by Rennes Templar (President Trump is back.)
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To: Cronos

Reza Pahlavi has advocated not for absolute power, but for a ceremonial, constitutional role within a democratic framework, similar to the UK.

This structure can provide symbolic unity, but the advocacy for a constitutional and democratic monarchy, is far easier than the implementation of such a government.

Monarchs, especially those who have witnessed their dynastys being overthrow are not apt to cede power to the people.


9 posted on 06/17/2025 8:21:59 PM PDT by Round Earther
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To: Cronos

I said this before:

A BEATIFUL way would be for several countries to help Iran’s sane population to form their own army and have an election to form their government.


10 posted on 06/17/2025 8:28:19 PM PDT by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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To: Cronos

Cyrus lived about a thousand years before Mohammed came along. Things changed a bit.


11 posted on 06/17/2025 8:30:41 PM PDT by budj (Combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations.)
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To: Cronos

I hope the Iranian people take the opportunity to overthrow their government. But we should not do it for them. It needs to be their action. We (the rest of the world) can encourage them and assure them of our support should they succeed, and perhaps even give them advice and some material support, but it has to come from them. In a Mussolini kind of way.


12 posted on 06/17/2025 8:38:17 PM PDT by scouter (As for me and my household... We will serve the LORD.)
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To: Kudsman

Turban adorned wind chimes dangling from construction cranes.


13 posted on 06/17/2025 8:39:02 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Kudsman
He better surrender before his own people drag his broken corpse through the streets.

No. I want to see his broken, battered, bloody corpse dragged through the streets.

1979.

14 posted on 06/17/2025 8:39:37 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Cronos

This shows there has been a major behind the scenes organizing with the Mullah’s opposition. The biggest difference now is Trump is not surrounded by the same Harvard morons that have been behind every foreign policy disaster adventure. (Viet Nam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.)


15 posted on 06/17/2025 8:42:16 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: budj
"Cyrus lived about a thousand years before Mohammed came along. Things changed a bit."

Iran is now only 30% Moslem and the country is increasingly secular. The general population has become disenchanted with fundamentalist Islam under the dictatorship of the crazy mullahs. If there ever was a time the people should rise up against them, it is now.

16 posted on 06/17/2025 8:52:49 PM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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To: usconservative

That Ayatollah is already dead.


17 posted on 06/17/2025 8:55:57 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: Mr. Blond

I was thinking that all the stress of having to flee would give him a cardiac episode and croak him.
Then bomb the mullah clan of oppressors and it’s over.
The scientists and generals are dead or in disarray.


18 posted on 06/17/2025 9:07:18 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: Mr. Blond
What about The Ayatollah of Rock N Rolla!


19 posted on 06/17/2025 9:09:26 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Iran was always iran, even under the Achaemenuds or Sassanids. Iranshahr basically means land of the Aryans (”Aryan” is a term meaning nobles, that was used by the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-Europeans, meaning Aryans are either Indian or Iranian, not the Nordics or others).

Persia or Fars is the largest province in iran, and the largest sub ethnicity. Kind of like Holland and the Netherlands.

We should say Make Iran Zoroastrian Again. MIZA!


20 posted on 06/17/2025 9:09:50 PM PDT by Cronos
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