Activities of Prince Reza Pahlavi During 44 Years Away from Iran
User HeKasrehCrisis published the activities of Prince Reza Pahlavi during his 44 years away from Iran on his Twitter page.
Following the insults by “Haman Seyedi” to Prince Reza Pahlavi, as well as reactions from opponents regarding the “I Delegate” campaign and discussions on social media about where Prince Reza Pahlavi had been during these 44 years and what he had done to support Iran, only to now seek people’s support for transitioning away from the Islamic Republic, supporters of Prince Reza Pahlavi also responded to these attacks.
Following these reactions, user HeKasrehCrisis published on his Twitter page Prince Reza Pahlavi’s 44 years of service from the time he left Iran until today, accompanied by authentic documents.
Parts of this tweet are as follows:
“At the age of 18, on June 21, 1978 (31 Khordad 1357), immediately after completing high school and approximately 8 months before the revolution, Reza Pahlavi left Iran for Texas to complete his pilot training course with the U.S. Air Force.
In the months leading up to February 11, 1979 (22 Bahman 57), Reza Pahlavi was undergoing fighter pilot training at Reese Air Force Base.
Two months after his father’s burial and days after Iraq’s attack on Iran, Prince Reza Pahlavi wrote a letter and volunteered to fly as a pilot for Iran’s Air Force, but Islamic Republic officials never responded to this letter.
In November 1980, in Cairo, he expressed his readiness to fulfill his responsibilities as Iran’s king and swore an oath to dedicate his life to serving the nation and protecting the legal rights of the Iranian people. In the 1980s, he began his activities to encourage opponents of the Islamic Republic to show solidarity and draw international attention to Iran’s situation, repeatedly emphasizing in his interviews that the Islamic Republic is not a government but a terrorist group.
In an interview with NBC in June 1989, following Khomeini’s death, responding to two questions that everyone is familiar with and are still being asked of him—why have you been in hiding these 10 years and what have you been doing, do you think the monarchy will return to Iran—he answers.
In another interview with Nader Rafiee from the “Iran Hope” network conducted in June 1995, he points out that the Islamic Republic is inherently unreformable and the West should not appease the Islamic Republic for short-term economic interests. Pay attention to the date—two years before June 1997 and the rise of Khatami and the Reform government.
During a period when the “Reform” movement had the greatest public support, Reza Pahlavi, utilizing the new opportunity that satellite networks had created, sent his first direct video message to the people. In this message, he again emphasized the irreformable nature of the Islamic Republic and the necessity of solidarity among forces opposing it.
In 2001, Reza Pahlavi held a press conference in Los Angeles titled “Union for Freedom” and after reading a letter from one of the political prisoners in Evin, once again emphasized the necessity of solidarity to defeat the Islamic Republic.
In the months leading up to the 2005 elections and during a period when few were willing to listen, Reza Pahlavi repeatedly emphasized the irreformable nature of the Islamic Republic and the ineffectiveness of elections within the system’s framework, encouraging people to boycott the elections. Six days before the 2005 elections were held in Iran, Reza Pahlavi, in front of the Federal building in Los Angeles and in support of Iran’s political prisoners, joined a group of Iranians in a three-day hunger strike.
During the early years of Ahmadinejad’s presidency and concurrent with daily tensions between the Islamic Republic and the West, the focus of Reza Pahlavi’s activities was on encouraging Western governments to support the Iranian people in achieving democracy and freedom, as an alternative to a policy of appeasement and endless negotiations.
Negotiations and messages that Prince Reza Pahlavi addressed to the people across all media continued. Prince Reza Pahlavi also held a press conference in Washington two days after the killing of “Neda Agha Sultan” and attempted to draw the attention of the international community, particularly American media and politicians, to events in Iran and the brutal suppression of protesters.
Following various protests and their continuation in Iran, Reza Pahlavi was frequently a guest on Western media. His common message in all these interviews was that the West should enter into negotiations with the Iranian people instead of the Islamic Republic and support them in overthrowing it. With the elimination of the Islamic Republic, all secondary issues such as the nuclear challenge will also be resolved.”
The Iranian people, addressing critics who had reacted to the “I Delegate” campaign, announced: Instead of attacking and insulting the Prince, read some books and real news to make sure who is telling the truth and who is lying. Documents are always more credible than words. News and documented videos show that Prince Reza Pahlavi’s support continues to this day as the popular revolutionary uprising has begun.
More complete news about Prince Reza Pahlavi’s services and his interviews over the past 44 years can be viewed through the following link on the Twitter page.
