Reza Pahlevi Calls for “Transition to Democracy” to Replace “Tyrant in Tehran”

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Reza Pahlevi’s call for an end of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s regime followed two similar calls from Prime Minister Netanyahu.

Reza Pahlevi, the son of the Shah of Iran, used the anniversary of the October 7 attack on Israel to release a video address calling for an end to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s rule in Iran.

“Forty-five years ago, my country was taken hostage by a radical regime that seeks not only to keep my people in chains, but to export its revolution to your countries and your people,” Pahlevi said in the video, which in the hours immediately following its release accumulated more than 4 million views on X. “The regime in Tehran is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocents—Iranians, Arabs, and Israelis, Christians, Muslims, and Jews. It facilitated the October 7 attack. It fueled sectarian conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Yemen. It is trying to unseat the Hashemite Kingdom, and delegitimize the custodians of the two holy mosques. It uses Palestinians as human shields, and now it has brought our cradle of civilization to the cusp of regional war.”