The exiled Crown Prince of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, announced that he has accepted the role as Iran’s transitional leader.
Sharing in a social media statement that the Islamic Republic has “launched missiles at the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Jordan, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia,” targeting its “Arab neighbors,” Pahlavi declared, the “violations of their sovereignty are unacceptable.”
“This is who the Islamic Republic has always been. And this is why it must end,” he proclaimed, condemning the regime’s “bloodshed across our region.”
“None of this has ever been the desire of the Iranian people, but rather that of the regime occupying our country. Now, however, the landscape has fundamentally shifted,” Pahlavi added. “Assad is gone. Hezbollah has been decimated. The regime’s military nuclear program has been set back. Its economy is in freefall.”
“The pillars of this regime’s aggression are crumbling,” he said, declaring, “The Iranian people have called on me to lead the transition after the regime is gone. I have accepted that responsibility. Part of their great mandate to me is to return our nation and our foreign relations to normalcy. I will do exactly that.”
“My commitment is to ensure the transition is orderly, the country is stabilized, and Iranians determine their future through the ballot box,” Pahlavi elaborated. “We will not repeat the mistakes of past transitions. We will avoid de-Baathification scenarios and maintain as many bureaucrats and public servants in the transition as possible.”
Earlier this week, Pahlavi declared that Iranians “will traverse the path to victory. And we will overthrow the Islamic Republic system.”
