Prince Reza Pahlavi: We don't need an army to attack Iran

Prince Reza Pahlavi said in an interview with the National Post: "We do not need an army to attack Iran, the people's army is ready."

Prince Reza Pahlavi, in a message published on the Truth Network, announced his visit to Canada and an interview with the National Post newspaper on Wednesday, June 4, about the Iranian people's movement for freedom. In this interview, he emphasized the need for international coordination to exert maximum pressure on the Islamic Republic's regime and, in return, provide maximum support to the Iranian people.

Prince Pahlavi said in the interview: “We do not need an army to attack Iran. Our ground forces are already on the scene, the people’s army. Do not lead us into another Afghanistan or Iraq. We know that this path should not be bloody. All that is needed is to review and re-adjust your foreign policy. Accept that this regime has received more than enough opportunities.”

The prince added in another part of his conversation: "Iran should be South Korea, not North Korea, with a national government that cares about its people, not spending our national resources to export ideology to the whole world at the cost of poverty and oppression of the people. Iranians know very well that their country was on the path of progress before the revolution. Suddenly everything stopped and we returned completely to the Middle Ages. If we look across the Persian Gulf (to Saudi Arabia and the Emirates), where were they 40 years ago and where are they today? One can imagine exactly where Iran could be today, compared to where it is now. Iran is not where it should be now, and the reason for this is nothing but the absolute corruption and mismanagement of the regime, which is only trying to survive without the slightest interest in improving the lives of the people."

Reza Pahlavi also referred to the issue of the United States' nuclear negotiations with the Islamic Republic, stating: "Trump should know that in these negotiations, we are not on the side of a building and real estate contract that he can weld with a corrupt regime. Khamenei is not negotiating, he is buying time. It is possible to withdraw from the region and chant the slogan of America first, which is his own slogan, but it is not possible to say America first and at the same time leave behind chaos."

In a report published on its interview with Prince Reza Pahlavi, the National Post described him as a figure who is quickly becoming a transformative figure in Middle Eastern politics.