Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of the former Iranian king, expressed hope that Trump would stick to his word and intervene in Iran at a news conference in Washington this morning. Protesters have chanted Pahlavi\u2019s name at some protests, but it remains unclear how much support he has inside the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cClearly, President Trump did say that if the regime was to hit the Iranian people hard, they were faced with serious consequences. That the Iranian people have taken his word, as a man of his words, as I said, they know that unlike his predecessors that threw us under the bus one time, this president is not about to do the same thing, and that\u2019s very encouraging and empowering,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Trump has said in recent interviews and posts on Truth Social that the U.S. would take action, including possible military action, if Iran continued to kill protesters or execute people detained during the protests. <\/p>\n
Asked about the necessity of U.S. military intervention, Pahlavi said that any attacks on the \u201cregime\u2019s apparatus of repression,\u201d including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and paramilitary institutions, would aid protesters. <\/p>\n
\u201cAny strike on those entities will facilitate our task, will prevent more loss of lives and will weaken the regime to a point that resistance will be futile,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Trump has not thrown his support behind Pahlavi, who asserted himself as the best person to lead a transition in Iran should the regime collapse and characterized himself as a supporter of democracy and human rights.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe seems very nice, but I don\u2019t know how he\u2019d play within his own country,\u201d Trump told the news agency Reuters. If Iranians did accept him, \u201cthat would be fine with me,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Pahlavi declined to comment when asked if he had spoken with Trump\u2019s special envoy Steve Witkoff or other members of the administration. The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n
\u201cPresident Trump has said that it\u2019s up to the Iranian people to decide, and I totally agree. I\u2019ve always said it\u2019s for the Iranian people to decide,\u201d Pahlavi said. \u201cAnd I think the Iranian people have already demonstrated in great numbers who it is that they want them to lead to this transition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of the former Iranian king, expressed hope that Trump would stick to his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-411480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}