Son of Iran’s deposed Shah urges US, Israel to wage all-out war on country after failed ‘regime change’ plot
Reza Pahlavi, the son of Iran’s deposed Shah, has once again openly appealed to the United States and Israel to launch an all-out war against his own country, following the nation’s thwarting of a US-Israeli plot aimed at “regime change.”
In an interview with Fox News, Pahlavi, the son of Iran’s US-backed monarch who fled the country after his father’s dictatorship was overthrown in the 1979 Islamic Revolution, publicly called for military strikes against Iran, saying he does not care whether such action is carried out by the United States, Israel, or another actor.
Pleading for foreign aggression, he claimed that a single “definitive strike” could “completely reverse the odds” and help bring down the current Iranian government.
“It could be an American strike. It could be an Israeli strike. It could be whatever,” he added.
Pahlavi went further, claiming that to fully defeat the Iranian state, any military campaign would need to target the country’s entire military and security institutions.
The Fox News anchor interviewing him responded by noting that such a campaign “could be a lot.”
In June last year, Israel and the United States failed to conquer Iran despite hundreds of attacks against the country during a 12-day war. Iran showed its will and ability to strike back as hundreds of Iranian missiles and drones pounded targets in occupied territories, and also a major US base in Qatar.
Pahlavi’s remarks come after merchants in Iran organized peaceful demonstrations in Tehran to protest sharp fluctuations in the national currency, the rial. Seizing the moment, Pahlavi sought to exploit the situation by calling on Mossad- and CIA-linked sleeper cells inside Iran to incite riots and hijack what had begun as peaceful protests.
Not long before, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that Israel was running a covert influence operation using fake accounts and AI-generated content to promote Pahlavi and advocate for the restoration of the monarchy in Iran, underscoring the depth of this alliance.
The ties between Pahlavi and Israel were further solidified after the Tel Aviv regime launched the unprovoked 12-day aggression, which claimed the lives of more than 1,000 people, including women and children.
While the Iranian nation mourned its martyrs, Pahlavi monarchists openly celebrated. Reza Pahlavi offered no words of sympathy for the victims of the 12-day war, laying bare where his loyalties truly lie.
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