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The Crown Prince of Iran Pitches Regime Change to Washington
The neoconservative Hudson Institute hosted the son of Iran’s late Shah.
He painted a picture of Iran on the brink of collapse—and presented a plan to manage the coming “implosion” with a…
- Matthiew Petti
- The National Interest
Former crown prince Reza Pahlavi doesn’t want to be king of Iran—but he does want to help plan a military coup d’etat.
Pahlavi called for elements of the country’s elite Revolutionary Guards to “peel away” from the regime to “facilitate a smoother transition based on my strategy of nonviolent civil disobedience.”
He pitched his plan to turn Iran into a “multiparty system” at an event hosted by Mike Doran, a…