Iranian Regime On Brink Of Collapse, Says Former Shah's Son
Iranian protesters "can smell" regime's downfall, Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran’s former shah told TURAN's U.S. correspondent adding that “it’s just a matter of time!”
Speaking to reporters at Washington's Hudson Institute on Wednesday, he said, current protests rocking the Tehran government could "topple the clerical regime".
He also called on Western powers to back the uprisings, and abandon any hope that the regime will ever behave like a “normal” government.
Time has come, he said, "to recognize that this is not a normal regime but an anti-Iranian occupying force, and it will not change its behavior”.
59-year-old former crown prince, whose U.S.-backed father was ousted in the 1979 Iranian Revolution, also painted a picture of Iran on the "brink of collapse," telling TURAN's correspondent that the latest protests which erupted after the accidental downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane, as well as the ones in November reminded him of the uprising that ousted his father 40 years ago.
Speaking of Iranian people's aspiration to freedoms and democracy, Pahlavi, who currently lives in Maryland, said, "sadly, we’ve never had free elections in Iran in our entire history", presenting his plan to a Washington audience as the only way to manage the coming implosion with a “minimum of casualties.”
The international community, he said, should finance a “strike fund” to allow Iranian workers to shut down the country.
The Western governments, in their part, should continue their maximum economic pressure.
Speaking about the current state of independent media in Iran, Pahlavi said, the "regime interrupts the internet, shuts down the media because it doesn’t want the world to find out [what’s going on]”
For a rising generation of younger Iranians, he said, the only thing that stands between them and the democratic world is "a regime that cannot claim it did not have a chance in 40 years to normalize their lives”
Alex Raufoglu
Washington D.C.
-
- Social
- 16 January 2020 10:40
Politics
-
A new mass grave has been discovered in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, in the village of Malybeyli in the Khojaly region. The remains of at least six people were found on April 24 during construction and restoration work, the Prosecutor General's Office and the State Commission for Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons of Azerbaijan said in a joint statement.
-
Activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) Elnur Hasanov has been on a dry hunger strike in Baku pre-trial detention center-1 since April 18. His family is concerned for his health.
-
On April 25, the European Parliament, with 474 votes in favor and 4 against, and 51 abstentions, adopted a resolution condemning the Azerbaijani authorities for repression against civil society.
-
Candidates for deputies in the 2020 parliamentary elections Gorkhmaz Ibrahimli and Rafail Zeynalzade appealed in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) against the violation of their rights. They complained about the violation of their rights during the election campaign.
Prezidentin quru sərhədləri, Ukrayna müharibəsi, Azərbaycan- Ermənistan münasibətləri haqda açıqlamaları... – İlham İsmayıl Çətin sualda
InvestPro Azerbaijan Baku & Turkiye Istanbul 2024 – two conferences in one shot
News Line
-
- Social,
- 17:42
- 213
Leave a review