Son of the last Shah of Iran exiled Reza Pahlavi again called for international intervention to support the Iranian people. Opposition figures who live in United States of America The statement also urged Iranians at home and abroad to continue demonstrations against the Islamic republic.
Reza Pahlavi, who has not returned to his country since before the 1979 Islamic revolution that toppled the monarchy, said Iran needed a “balancing factor” to topple the clerical authority.
“I think a lot of people Iran “at home and abroad hope that an intervention that will neutralize the regime’s instruments of oppression will finally give us a chance for a final solution,” the Iranian ‘Crown Prince’ said while speaking at the Munich Security Conference, reported by the news agency AFPSaturday (14/2/2026).
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“We ask for humanitarian intervention to prevent more innocent lives from being killed in this process,” he added.
US President Donald Trump has threatened military intervention to support a wave of street protests in Iran that peaked in January. The anti-government demonstrations were met with a violent crackdown, which human rights groups say has killed thousands of people.
Trump has stationed a US aircraft carrier in the Middle East, and said on Friday (13/2) that he would soon send another, the world’s largest aircraft carrier.
Pahlavi says Trump “needs to convince the rest of the world that he has given diplomatic efforts the maximum chance”.
However, Pahlavi also said that “President Trump recognizes that the Iranian people have been very clear in their requests for support, they truly believe in his promises that help is at hand”.
“There’s a lot at stake in terms of keeping face in the face of those expectations,” he said during a conversation with CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour at the Munich Security Conference, a rare opportunity for him to speak at an international event.
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date:2026-02-14 03:32:00