“Prince Reza Pahlavi”: Islamic Republic, an Octopus with Terrorist Arms
Prince Reza Pahlavi, during an interview, described the Islamic Republic as an octopus with terrorist arms whose eye is in Tehran.
Prince Reza Pahlavi had an exclusive interview with the New York Times last Monday, May 12, in which he spoke of maximum pressure on the Islamic Republic government by the Trump administration and, in contrast, maximum support for the Iranian people to change the regime.
In his interview, while criticizing the neglect of the Islamic Republic’s sanctions under the Biden administration and calling for increased pressure against the Islamic Republic regime, he said: “The Islamic Republic is a warmongering government and the root cause of instability in the region and an exporter of extremism and terrorism, and over the past nearly five decades, it is weaker than ever before. The Iranian people are trying to send a clear message to the world that if you are looking for a real partner for peace, it is we who are your partner, not this government that took our country hostage 46 years ago. They are America’s friends. If the revolution had not happened in 1979, today Iran would have been at least the South Korea of the Middle East, but instead, we have become North Korea.”
In this interview, he stated to Donald Trump that maximum pressure on Iran can be the dismantling of the nuclear program and combating the export of terrorism and increasing sanctions against them. Prince Pahlavi added on this matter: “This regime is inherently at odds with the world, and waiting for the government to change its behavior is actually a waste of time. We saw that in the first Trump administration, maximum pressure achieved results and further isolated this regime and limited the financing and fueling of its war machine. But unfortunately, this was reversed under the Biden administration! That is, the Islamic Republic had more than 200 billion dollars from the sale of Iranian oil that it should not have had. This helped them expand their power and support their proxies, whether the Houthis, Hezbollah, or Hamas.”
Reza Pahlavi also, in his remarks, referring to the failed bombing of Israeli missions located in London, following which several Iranians were arrested by British police, regarded it as another example of terrorism and the export of instability by the Islamic Republic regime. He added about the foiled bombing plot at the Israeli embassy: “The Islamic Republic is an octopus with terrorist arms whose arms are everywhere, but its eye is in Tehran.” The prince also addressed the West saying: “Every time a fire was lit, you sent your fire trucks here and there to extinguish the fire. But the problem is that no one has gone after these arsonists.”
Prince Reza Pahlavi, in response to the question “What form can regime change in Iran take,” said: “There is a logic that says, well! The first option is diplomacy, but if the first option doesn’t work, the second option is attacking facilities or war! But instead of these two, let us give the Iranian people the opportunity to solve the problem themselves, and that is when you cannot reach a diplomatic conclusion and before military action is needed! This is the missing element. The tragedy of Afghanistan and Iraq after September 11 should not be repeated. Change in Iran bears no resemblance to any of those scenarios that were catastrophically mismanaged. This is why “regime change” has become disreputable when conceptually the matter is not wrong.”
