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Exiled Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi said Saturday he is ready to lead Iran’s transition “as soon as the Islamic Republic collapses.”
As the war in Iran enters its third week, Pahlavi, the son of the late Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, said he has been working in recent months to develop a transition plan to ensure the country does not experience governance disruption in the event of the collapse of the Iranian regime.
Pahlavi said in a social media post that “competent individuals” have been identified both inside and outside Iran to lead what he called a “transitional arrangement.”
He said, “The transitional system under my leadership will be ready to take over the governance of the country immediately after the fall of the Islamic Republic and establish conditions for order, security, freedom and the prosperity and prosperity of Iran in the shortest possible time.”
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Exiled Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi said on March 14 that he was ready to lead Iran’s transition in the event of the collapse of the current regime. (Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images)
Pahlavi has been living in exile since the 1979 Islamic Revolution overthrew Iran’s monarchy and established the Islamic Republic.
He has tried in recent years to position himself as a unifying opposition figure and has said he would help guide the transition of power in Iran from theocracy to democracy.
In a message addressed to his “compatriots”, Pahlavi said that his plan to rule the country would come within the framework of the “Iran Prosperity Project”.
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In this photo obtained from Iran’s ISNA news agency, Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is seen in Tehran on October 13, 2024. (Hamed Jafarnejad/ISNA/AFP via Getty Images)
He said that many compatriots with valuable experience and expertise have declared their “readiness to participate in the reconstruction of the country and to serve the motherland.”
Since the joint operation between the US and Israel began, about 50 regime figures, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have been killed.
His son, Mojtaba Khamenei, was elected by Iran’s Assembly of Experts this week as the country’s new supreme leader.
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Iran’s exiled Prince Reza Pahlavi said the Islamic Republic is “collapsing” and called for democratic change following recent US and Israeli military attacks. (Paul Morigi/Getty Images)
In an appearance last week on Fox News’s “My View” with Lara Trump, Pahlavi said the Iranian people will not accept any consequences tied to the current regime.
He said, “Only a clean break will ensure that we get a democratic solution and alternative not only to this regime, but also to those who are not directly associated with this regime in any way, shape or form.”
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Pahlavi said that the Iranian people should decide the leadership of their country and that “only the ballot box should decide the outcome and who will be responsible for our country in the future.”
He said, “I think we would expect any government, including, of course, the current Trump administration, to recognize that the best way to really help the Iranian people is to allow them to make a choice freely and to support that choice as a Western democracy, as the world’s leading democracy.”
