Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of the last shah (king) of Iran, has long been trying to position himself as a leading figure of the Iranian anti-government movement.<\/p>\n
He has this morning made a new statement on social media, calling on Iranians to “come to the streets” today and tomorrow from 6pm, respectively.<\/p>\n
Moreover, he called on workers and employees in key sectors of the economy, especially transportation, and oil, gas, and energy, to begin a nationwide strike.<\/p>\n
However, an internet blackout had been in place for over 36 hours this morning, limiting access to Pahlavi’s message.<\/p>\n
It comes after protests continued across Iran for the second consecutive night yesterday, according to Pahlavi. He lauded protesters’ “courage and steadfastness”, that had won “the admiration of the world”.<\/p>\n
He added that he was “preparing to return to my homeland to be with you… when our national revolution is victorious”.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I believe that day is very close,” he said.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, Pahlavi had asked Donald Trump to “please be prepared to intervene to help the people of Iran”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of the last shah (king) of Iran, has long been trying to position…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-237652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}