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.
I hope that we don’t get involved in nation building and the Iranian regime stays in place. I do not feel threatened by them.
If he’s dead someone better tell his Twitter account it’s pretty active
Khomeini died in 89. KhAmeini is the current Ayatollah.
They need to desecrate the Ayatola-hole’s entire family. Everyone. they cannot be allowed to take the reins again.
Meh, you’ve seen one Ayatollah....
“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,
Like most tyrants of his day, Cyrus was not a nice guy. He was obsessed with absolute power and military conquest, with little regard for the welfare of the conquered. In that regard, the Shah of Iran, this prince’s father, are similar. I don’t think the people of Iran need a reinstatement of the autocratic Pahlavi dynasty. They should not have to choose between a lunatic religious theocracy or a king-like authoritarian dictatorship. They deserve better.
His dad, the Shah built an interesting railroad through Iran. If I ever go there I would love to ride it.
That old grifter crown prince. Never had a job in his life, living off others. Installing him would be like our experience with Chalabi in Iraq, or Karzai in Afghanistan.
“Reza Pahlavi has advocated not for absolute power, but for a ceremonial, constitutional role within a democratic framework, similar to the UK.”
So leech, he’s gonna be a leech. He has zero government experience, but he wants to be a ceremonial king with a palace, a jet and a paycheck? LOL....
You want him dragged through the streets because of 1979? Are you aware that Ali Khomeini is not the one from 1979? That one died in 1989.
That’s about the level of discourse I’ve come to expect in this war.
So this is not an opportunist who see’s a way to get installed in power?
I predict that Mr. Pahlavi will never be near the levers of power in a future Iranian government. Israel didn’t put everything on the line to re-install a family dynasty.
He will rename the Basij SAVAK, and everything will be OK.
No thanks.
There’s always a Hamid Karzai or a Jalal Talabani that the CIA can come up with.
He has been a non-stop moderate voice for a Constitutional Republic in Iran since 1980, when he was just 21 years old.
He has tirelessly urged Iran citizens to rebel against the political and economic insanity of the Ayatollahs.
Probably better than the radical Islamist theocracy.
Maybe they could institute something similar to what Russia had before the commies won and genocided many. That is a duma or House of Representatives to share power with the crown?
Sounds like the Deep State.
““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,”
So did the Turkish people.
What do you mean by Turkish people?
You mean the Ottoman Empire?
Or the modern nation of Turkey (since 1918)?
Turkey is a modern construct, the Ottomans prefered to speak Farsi and the ordin6people are descendents of the ancient nations of Anatolia mixed with Greeks, Iranians, Armenians, Galatians etc etc
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