Exiled prince looks to lead Iranian people in ending Islamic Republic: 'Our Berlin Wall moment'

The exiled prince of Iran has projected starring the country's antiauthoritarian modulation to extremity the Islamic Republic successful a caller code Monday. 

"Today, it is clearer than ever: The Islamic Republic is collapsing," Reza Pahlavi, the eldest lad of the precocious past shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, said. "Credible reports bespeak that Ali Khamenei’s household – and the families of elder authorities officials – are making preparations to fly Iran. The authorities is connected its past legs, successful towns and cities crossed the country. The subject is fractured. The radical are united. The foundations of this 46-year tyranny are shaking."

"This is our Berlin Wall moment," Pahlavi said from a property league helium called successful Paris.

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Iranian absorption person and lad of the past shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, holds a property league successful Paris connected June 23, 2025. (JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images)

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was reportedly hiding retired successful a bunker arsenic the U.S. subject pounded 3 Iranian atomic sites implicit the weekend. Amid concerns that helium could beryllium assassinated, Khamenei has chopped disconnected each physics communications to his commanders, relying connected a trusted adjutant to relay orders, the New York Times reported.

Pahlavi, whose begetter was the past monarch overthrown during the 1979 Iranian Revolution, said Monday that Iran presently stands astatine a crossroads, informing that the West handing the existent authorities a lifeline would lone effect successful much bloodshed. 

"The quality successful these 2 roads depends connected 1 origin and 1 origin alone: whether the existent authorities successful Iran is allowed to survive," helium said. "If the West throws the authorities a lifeline determination volition beryllium much bloodshed and chaos – due to the fact that this authorities volition not taxable oregon surrender aft it has been humiliated. It volition lash out. As agelong arsenic it is successful power, nary state and nary radical are safe: whether connected the streets of Washington, Paris, Jerusalem, Riyadh oregon Tehran."

He argued for a "peaceful and antiauthoritarian transition" and said the lone mode to execute bid was done "a secular, antiauthoritarian Iran." 

"I americium present contiguous to taxable myself to my compatriots to pb them down this roadworthy to bid and a antiauthoritarian transition," Pahlavi said. "I bash not question governmental power, but alternatively to assistance our large federation navigate done this captious hr toward stability, freedom, and justice." 

Pahlavi accused Khamenei of utilizing the Iranian radical arsenic "human shields" by hiding retired successful his bunker. 

"Seeing the images of the radical of Tehran forced to fly our beauteous capital, the explosions successful Isfahan, the fires on the Persian Gulf, each capable maine with pain. But much than pain, I americium filled with choler due to the fact that this warfare is the effect of the selfishness, hatred, and panic of 1 man: Ali Khamenei," helium said. "While helium directs this warfare from the information of his hidden bunker, helium uses our radical arsenic quality shields. It is clip to extremity the suffering."

In a nonstop connection to Khamenei, Pahlavi said, "Step down. And if you do, you volition person a just proceedings and owed process of law. Which is much than you person ever fixed immoderate Iranian."

Iranians clasp up their hands arsenic signs of unity with Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during an anti-Israeli rally to condemn Israel's attacks connected Iran, successful downtown Tehran, Iran, connected June 20, 2025. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

He said different elder authorities officials would person to look justness but promised not to "repeat the mistakes made successful different failed transitions."

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"To those of you who are loyal to the Iranian nation, and not the Islamic Republic: determination is simply a aboriginal for you successful a antiauthoritarian Iran, if you articulation the radical now," Pahlavi said. "The prime is yours to make. I cognize these officers, these soldiers, these brave men beryllium due to the fact that they are reaching retired to maine and telling maine they privation to beryllium portion of this nationalist salvation. But now, greater coordination is needed." 

Pahlavi announced that helium is establishing "a ceremonial transmission for military, security, and constabulary unit to scope retired straight to me, my team, and our expanding operation." He promised that it was a "secure level to efficiently negociate the increasing measurement of inbound communications and requests from those breaking with the authorities and seeking to articulation our movement." 

He said the planetary assemblage was close to beryllium acrophobic astir stopping atomic weapons and securing determination stability. Although the demolition of the 3 atomic sites astatine Natanz, Isfahan and Fordow has "diminished the regime’s home atomic enrichment," Pahlavi warned that the U.S. strikes did "not diminish the regime’s intent to get and usage atomic weapons."

"The regime, enraged and emboldened, volition beryllium seeking revenge and tin get atomic weapons from different rogue regimes similar North Korea," helium said. "The demolition of the regime’s atomic facilities unsocial volition not present peace." 

Reza Pahlavi holds a property league successful Paris connected June 23, 2025. (JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images)

Pahlavi said helium was "stepping guardant to pb this nationalist modulation – not retired of idiosyncratic involvement but arsenic a servant of the Iranian people." He said helium has a "clear program for modulation and nationalist renewal" based connected 3 halfway principles: Iran’s territorial integrity; idiosyncratic liberties and equality of each citizens; and separation of religion and state. Pahlavi projected convening a "national unity summit" of activists, dissidents, concern leaders, professionals, experts and different groups extracurricular of politics. 

The extremity would beryllium for them to unneurotic make a roadmap to antiauthoritarian transition, and helium said the "final signifier of this aboriginal ideology we question volition beryllium for the Iranian radical to determine successful a nationalist referendum." 

Pahlavi besides said helium developed a three-phase, broad program for the "economic reconstruction and societal stabilization" of the country. He promised that his squad of experts "will people the plans for the archetypal 100 days aft the illness of the Islamic Republic based connected this work." 

"We are bringing unneurotic immoderate of the world’s top investors, builders, entrepreneurs, and experts who attraction astir Iran and spot its immense potential," helium said. 

Before opting for U.S. subject intervention, President Donald Trump reportedly was working with Turkey to coordinate a diplomatic solution to the Israel-Iran struggle and chopped a atomic deal, but the ayatollah did not engage. According to Axios, sources said Trump offered to nonstop Vice President JD Vance and White House envoy Steve Witkoff for negotiations, and Trump offered to travel to Turkey himself if it meant gathering with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. 

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Turkey relayed the connection to its Iranian counterparts, who reportedly could not scope Khamenei for hours. Without the ayatollah's sign-off, the projected gathering was called off.