— Despite the lies you hear from the regime, the bloodshed has not diminished and the carnage has not stopped. My brave compatriots are still holding the front line (…) they need your urgent help, Pahlavi appealed during a press conference.
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He referred in this way to the Tehran regime's assurances, repeated by US President Donald Trump, that the killing of anti-government protesters has stopped. Pahlavi said he believed the American leader would keep his word to the Iranians and “ultimately stand with the Iranian people, as he said.”
Pahlavi argued that the Islamic Republic was close to collapse and the only question was “when, not if” it would collapse. But he called on the US and the rest of the world to take six steps, the first of which would be to “degrade the regime's repressive capabilities, including targeting the Islamic Revolutionary Guards command and its command and control infrastructure.”
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Other demands include increasing sanctions on the regime and Iran's shadow fleet, making the Internet available to protesters, expelling Iranian diplomats from capitals, demanding the release of political prisoners and preparing a democratic transformation in Iran by recognizing the transitional government.
Pahlavi claims that he has the support of Iranians to lead such a government and that he can unite the various factions of Iranian dissidents. He also assured that he had a detailed plan for the political transformation towards democracy. Asked about repression carried out by his father, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was overthrown by the revolution in 1979, he said he was leaving history to historians, but added that he wanted to bring about democratic rule in Iran.
The former crown prince assured that thousands of members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard were ready to abandon the regime and assured that if the regime fell, he would support an orderly transformation, leaving some of the institutions and people of the current regime.
