{"id":363412,"date":"2026-03-28T23:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T23:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/363412\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T23:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T23:27:10","slug":"reza-pahlavi-pledges-to-make-iran-great-again-at-2026-cpac-conference-us-israel-war-on-iran-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/363412\/","title":{"rendered":"Reza Pahlavi pledges to \u2018make Iran great again\u2019 at 2026 CPAC conference | US-Israel war on Iran News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iranian opposition leader calls on Trump administration to \u2018stay the course\u2019 as the US and Israel continue to wage war on Iran.<\/p>\n

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Amid questions about the future of Iran\u2019s government, the son of the former shah has pitched himself to a right-wing summit in the United States and received a raucous welcome.<\/p>\n

Reza Pahlavi<\/a> spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Texas on Saturday, urging US President Donald Trump not to cut a deal with Iran and instead seek regime change.<\/p>\n

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\u201cCan you imagine Iran going from \u2018Death to America\u2019 to \u2018God Bless America\u2019?\u201d the self-styled crown prince<\/a> asked his audience in Grapevine, Texas.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump is making America great again. I intend to make Iran great again,\u201d he added, receiving a standing ovation from the crowd.<\/p>\n

His remarks came on the one-month anniversary of the US and Israel\u2019s decision to launch a war against Iran<\/a>. As the conflict enters its second month, at least 1,937 people in Iran have been killed, and tens of thousands more injured, with no end to the fighting in sight.<\/p>\n

Pahlavi has become a central opposition figure in the Iranian diaspora<\/a>, with a loyal base of supporters who often carry his image, along with Iran\u2019s pre-revolutionary flag, at protests around the world.<\/p>\n

During his speech, some in the audience chanted, \u201cLong live the king!\u201d<\/p>\n

\"PeopleAudience members wrapped in Lion and Sun flags, symbolising Iran\u2019s deposed monarchy, listen to a speech from Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran\u2019s last shah [Callaghan O\u2019Hare\/Reuters]<\/p>\n

While some in the Iranian diaspora have expressed reservations about the US-Israeli attacks and their effect on the future of Iran, Pahlavi has emerged as an outspoken supporter of Trump, aligned with the administration\u2019s most hawkish figures.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis regime in its entirety must go,\u201d he said on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Analysts have warned that the Iranian government is not likely to collapse and could emerge from the conflict more hardened than before. Some exiles, meanwhile, have been criticised for lending their voices to support the US-Israeli war despite the heavy toll on Iranian civilians.<\/p>\n

Trump has himself previously downplayed the possibility that the son of the former shah, who was expelled from Iran during the country\u2019s 1979 revolution, could play a central role in Iran if the current government were to collapse.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Trump said that Pahlavi \u201clooks like a very nice person<\/a>\u201c, but indicated that the shah\u2019s son lacks popularity in Iran.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would seem to me that somebody from within, maybe, would be more appropriate,\u201d Trump had said.<\/p>\n

Divides within the US right over the war in Iran were also in evidence at CPAC. Polls suggest that, while the war is widely unpopular among US voters, Republicans support it<\/a> by large margins.<\/p>\n

In a Pew Research Center poll, for instance, 71 percent of Republican voters felt the US had made the right decision to attack Iran. Overall, among voters regardless of party, 59 percent opposed the initial strikes.<\/p>\n

Still, a handful of influential voices on the US right, such as Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon, have emerged as vocal critics of the war. Younger activists have also expressed frustration with what they see as a betrayal of Trump\u2019s promise to avoid military adventures overseas.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did not want to see more wars. We wanted actual America First policies, and Trump was very explicit about that,\u201d Benjamin Williams, a 25-year-old marketing specialist for Young Americans for Liberty, told The Associated Press. \u201cIt does feel like a betrayal, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iranian opposition leader calls on Trump administration to \u2018stay the course\u2019 as the US and Israel continue to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[234,42,87,47,43,238,40,38,41,39,1032,1156,162198],"class_list":{"0":"post-363412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-government","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-middle-east","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-top-news","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-topnews","17":"tag-topstories","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-us-canada","20":"tag-us-israel-war-on-iran"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}