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Reza Pahlavi

Reza Pahlavi

Former Crown Prince of IranWikipedia

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Oct 28, 2026

Blaine HoltGUEST
44:21
Then she's the gal.
Blaine HoltGUEST
44:22
If Reza Pahlavi can return as the Shah because Iran asked for him to come back,
speaker_0ADVERTISER
44:28
well,
Blaine HoltGUEST
44:28
fine.
Christiane AmanpourHOST
29:21
And they are counting on this blockade increasing the pain and the suffering inside Iran, not just on the people, but also on the regime, hoping that either it collapses the entire country or, again, causes the people to rise up against the regime.
Christiane AmanpourHOST
29:38
And you can see all these signs again, the former crown prince, Shah in exile, Reza Pahlavi, and all his associates are coming out again saying, Mr. Trump, finish this job.
Christiane AmanpourHOST
29:48
You saw Hegseth went to meet Netanyahu in the last 10 days or so, apparently to discuss targeting.
Christiane AmanpourHOST
29:55
And you see, as I said, that as we were speaking, very important major leaders from the Gulf region certainly Saudi Arabia, then Pakistan, which has tried to operate as a mediator, and also Turkey, which is trying to operate as a mediator.
speaker_21NARRATOR
67:35
Another nationwide uprising looms on the horizon.
speaker_21NARRATOR
67:39
A question that has become increasingly urgent is, if the clerical establishment loses power, what comes next? Among the figures seeking a role is Reza Pahlavi, the son of Iran's deposed Shah.
speaker_21NARRATOR
67:53
Despite massive lobbying, he has failed to convince Iranians or the US government to support him.
speaker_21NARRATOR
67:59
His father was overthrown in 1979 by a massive popular revolution after decades of authoritarian rule and political repression through SAVAK, the monarchy's feared secret police.
speaker_21NARRATOR
68:12
Reza Pahlavi has never disavowed his father's responsibility for political repression nor repudiated the conduct of SAVAK.
speaker_21NARRATOR
68:19
Instead, as recently as 2026, he has praised his father's legacy and described him as one of the greatest leaders in Iran's history.
speaker_25SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
68:29
But isn't your family history a problem for you as a transition leader?
Struan StevensonGUEST
71:42
And believe me, the next uprising is bound to happen and bound to happen soon.
Rod MartinGUEST
12:55
I believe that's what we're seeing in Iran, too.
Rod MartinGUEST
12:58
You'll notice he has been very hands off with Reza Pahlavi.
Rod MartinGUEST
13:02
I think that's deliberate.
Rod MartinGUEST
13:04
I know there are people in the White House who don't love Pahlavi.
Mark DubowitzHOST
70:29
If it's your first time here, go back to episode one.
Mark DubowitzHOST
70:31
That's where we began laying the groundwork in an episode with Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi.
Mark DubowitzHOST
70:37
You can find me on X and Instagram at mdubowitz or M-D-U-B-O-W-I-T-Z.
Mark DubowitzHOST
70:44
I'm Mark Dubowitz.
Kylie Moore-GilbertGUEST
14:36
She was exiled to a to Balochistan, to a prison there until very recently.
Kylie Moore-GilbertGUEST
14:43
People like Nasrin Soutoudeh, who just won a very major European human rights prize, and her husband Reza Khan Dan is in prison right now for supporting women's rights to remove the hijab.
Kylie Moore-GilbertGUEST
14:57
And she was in prison with me, so she's a friend of mine.
Kylie Moore-GilbertGUEST
14:59
I know her.
Ryan MorganGUEST
28:11
I don't necessarily think that's what he's waiting on.
Ryan MorganGUEST
28:16
Certainly, if he can pull off something like we saw with Venezuela, where he can get someone like Riza Pahlavi, someone who's friendly with the West.
Ryan MorganGUEST
28:27
kind of pry Iran away from Russia and China, that does provide some leverage on the geopolitical scale as we're trying to maneuver against those bigger near-peer competitors.
Ryan MorganGUEST
28:43
That being said, I think the immediate calculus right now for Trump is don't do anything that is going to incite further opposition to the war in the U.S. voter base right before the elections.
Behnam Ben TalebluGUEST
31:35
With the most violently repressed protests in history, the only person that I know now that can draw a crowd bigger than the sitting U.S. president, both in the Islamic Republic, January 8, January 9, and outside the Islamic Republic, across the Iranian diaspora on three different continents.
Behnam Ben TalebluGUEST
31:54
is, in my view, none other than the Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi.
Behnam Ben TalebluGUEST
31:58
Now, saying that doesn't mean you need to endorse monarchy, but you do need to understand why he is more popular now, 47 years later, after this regime toppled his father's regime, than at the early part in the late 70s, early 80s.
Behnam Ben TalebluGUEST
32:12
It is because that this society was one of the first to go through the ringer of this Islamism, Marxist, anti-American, anti-imperial milieu that formed the Islamic Republic.
MikeHOST
11:56
So who do we put in there? Is this another one of these American...
Eddie YeranianGUEST
12:00
Once again, I'm just guessing, and it's just my opinion, but they've got the Shah's son, Reza Pahlavi, poised to take over.
Eddie YeranianGUEST
12:12
I think that's the plan.
Eddie YeranianGUEST
12:13
I don't know.
Chowra MakaremiGUEST
78:22
Et donc il y avait cette idée que d'être en opposition frontale avec euh, avec l'État iranien, euh c'était euh une forme de folie, d'immaturité, d'irresponsabilité et que les opposants politiques en fait radicaux étaient, étaient responsables, coresponsables euh de la violence qui s'abattait euh au sein de la, au sein de la population.
Chowra MakaremiGUEST
78:46
C'est un discours que moi, j'ai pu retrouver, même si je pense que que que que Trump et euh Reza Pahlavi ont une responsabilité euh absolument euh indéniable euh dans euh les massacres des des huit et neuf octobre, dans la façon dont ils ont encouragé la population iranienne à à descendre dans la rue en laissant penser qu'il y avait euh qu'ils étaient dans, qu'on était dans un jeu à plusieurs acteurs et qu'il y avait donc ces acteurs puissants qui étaient derrière, ce qui n'était pas le cas.
Chowra MakaremiGUEST
79:15
Euh mais malgré ça, la façon dont euh le guide suprême Khamenei est arrivé le lendemain même de ces massacres en disant : C'est la faute de Trump, on le tient pour responsable de ces massacres.
Chowra MakaremiGUEST
79:26
Ça réactive en fait euh un discours de propagande qui a, qui a fonctionné pendant, pendant, pendant très longtemps en Iran et qui était de dire de toute façon, l'État C'est un bulldozer qui roule et qui écrase tout sur son passage, tout, tout alternatif, tout ce qui n'est pas républicain islamique et que la faute du crime, du meurtre, de la mort, de la suppression revient à celui qui se trouve sous les routes de ce bulldozer.

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Chowra MakaremiGUEST
90:52
Oui, dans la société.
Chowra MakaremiGUEST
90:53
Moi, je pense que c'est dans la société.
Chowra MakaremiGUEST
90:55
Après, le régime a surfé sur ce terrain d'entente potentiel, mais pas vraiment, parce qu'en fait, là, c'est plutôt le projet monarchiste ou en tout cas un statu quo autour des monarchistes qui...ou de la figure de Reza Pahlavi, le fils du shah destitué Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
Chowra MakaremiGUEST
91:19
Donc, c'est autour de cela que se constitue ce contre-

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