wasnt his dads regime the entire reason the iranian regime is in power now
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Adorable_Salt_71452 days ago
+48
dictatorships are bad as long as you are not the dictator
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RammRras1 day ago
+7
Corruption is bad
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Ro-ftw2 days ago
-42
What makes you say he was a dictator? Same logic would make most Western nations a dictatorship cause they don't want communism, extreme islamists, and separatists.
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WillDigForFood2 days ago
+13
Pretty sure it's all the torture, civil rights abuses and extrajudicial murders of protesters.
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Ro-ftw2 days ago
-16
By protesters you mean communists (aka MEK who are literally categorised as a terrorist organisation now) and the Mullahs (who are the Islamic Republic regime now)? And obviously their supporters...
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fuggitdude222 days ago
+7
Are yall really that delusional? If the Pahlavis were as wonderful as you are implying then how did a revolution which was not even backed by another state even happen.
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Ro-ftw1 day ago
-6
What? Hahah. Are you baiting? Not backed by another state?
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fuggitdude221 day ago
+8
List the other state which sponsored the Islamic revolution like how the French sponsored the American Revolution.
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kingrufiio1 day ago
+1
Pretty sure th US was heavily involved in the events leading up to the revolution.
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fuggitdude221 day ago
+3
Eh, they didn't provide the opposition any arms to topple the Shah. That happened organically.
The US did not trip over themselves to keep the Shah in power. I will grant you that.
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Adorable_Salt_71452 days ago
+17
his secret police?
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Ro-ftw2 days ago
-16
And who was the secret police going after genius?
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deja-vu_gameover1 day ago
+2
Literally everyone. They arrested writers, academics, religious leaders, poets, filmmakers, students, etc. SAVAK was empowered to such a point that they oversaw operations domestically and internationally; they had surveillance on Iranians abroad and even had some notable assassinations.
They had so much power that they were even reprimanded by the Shah because they started investigating the widespread financial corruption (some that the royals were involved in).
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HormuzVengeance2 days ago
-18
The one that operated in the exact same capacity as all other national security organisations like CIA, MI5 etc.
The one who at its peak only had 2500-3000 detainees all of whom were communist terrorists, sectarian segregationists, and islamic terrorists hellbent on destroying Iran for their own political and religious agenda?
Savak gets blown so so SO much out of proportion and this is a calculated play by the islamic regime as a means to completely discredit any support for Pahlavi because they themselves were the same type of people that savak worked to stop.
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Major_Wayland2 days ago
+11
Damn, poor Shah was a good guy after all...
>Protests grew from moderate numbers into massive, nationwide rallies in 1978 and 1979, immobilizing the military and demonstrating a broad cross-section of support including Islamists, secularists, laborers, and ethnic minorities
And these poor people were just a little over the edge, clearly misunderstanding how great and kind their Shah was
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HormuzVengeance2 days ago
-14
Yeah, people were either lied to and the movement co-opted by islamists (see communists and leftists who wanted a break from a monarchy and aligned with the islamists at the time and were immediately executed after the islamic rise to power), or were actual islamists themselves, or just regular people who fell victim to populism.
It’s a shame what happened in the revolution. Look at the thousands and thousands of Americans who have rallied in support of Trump when a lot of us in the world see him and his administration as deplorable.
It is possible for a nation to make bad decisions, but when that nation has suffered absolute hell for 47 years because of that bad decision and wants change, it’s unfair to wag your finger at them for that moment in history to justify their ongoing suffering.
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yxhuvud1 day ago
+1
Perhaps because he overthrew the democratically elected regime that was before him.
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HormuzVengeance1 day ago
No he didn’t. This is a wildly uneducated point that you westerners keep telling us Iranians about as if it’s a gotcha moment.
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi inherited the throne from his father Reza shah Pahlavi who was appointed king in 1925 following the constitution of Iran.
Mohammad Reza shah initially backed the appointment of Mossadegh. He was already king at this point.
Mossadegh tried to illegally dissolve parliament due to being backed by separatists and loads of other political stuff which I no longer have the patience to repeat for the millionth time coz you people never f****** listen anyway.
In response to this Mohammad Reza shah removed Mossadegh from his position which at the time was perfectly legal to do and within the constitution of Iran.
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HardlyW0rkingHard2 days ago
+20
It's more complicated than that.
Under his father Iran was not a politically free country but it absolutely was a free country in terms of expression, thought, and finance.
Regardless, he is not his father. I suggest you actually check out his iranian prosperity project. He is a very big proponent of secular democracy being a must in Irans future. He has been preaching this for a long time and his project includes very detailed plans for a transitional government to the point where iranains can choose at the ballot boxes what they want for their future.
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eNonsense1 day ago
+10
>Under his father Iran was not a politically free court but it absolutely was a free country in terms of expression, thought, and finance.
That's not true. The Shah was oppressive and cruel, just in the opposite way. For example, he required by law that citizens dress in western clothing. If a Muslim woman was seen in the streets of Tehran wearing a head scarf she would be beaten. You can have whatever belief you want about Islam and women wearing scarves, but Muslim women reporting that they felt like prisoners in their own homes because they couldn't be in public wearing their religious clothing is not a "free in terms of expression & thought".
[There's a 2 part "Behind The Bastards" podcast about the Shah.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGbJ8Zu_Bx0) He wasn't a good dude and neither was his authoritarian government. He just wasn't Shia Muslim running a theocracy, which we in the west instinctually associate with oppressive governments.
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HardlyW0rkingHard1 day ago
+15
>If a Muslim woman was seen in the streets of Tehran wearing a head scarf she would be beaten.
This podcast that you linked is about Reza shah, not Mohammad Reza shah. He was exiled to Mauritius following Englo Soviet invasion of Iran during ww2.
Mohammad Reza shah was actually a Shia Muslim, he went for Pilgrimage twice.
I'm not going to listen to the podcast because I've studied Reza shah quite a bit. He was very much against Islams treatment of women; he pushed for secularism in Iran. A very polarizing individual but he was absolutely the person who pushed Iran into industrialization.
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LilyBelle5041 day ago
+2
>Regardless, he is not his father. I suggest you actually check out his iranian prosperity project. He is a very big proponent of secular democracy
I think as the other user said, the former Shah wasn't a good guy, but that doesn't mean his son will necessarily be. I think it's a bit unfair to treat him like he personally committed the crimes his father did, when he hasn't?
As far as his idea of a national referendum that allows Iranians to vote on a form of governance they want for the future, that seems reasonable.
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Mindless-Peak-16871 day ago
+2
Do the iranian people want him ?
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LilyBelle5041 day ago
+1
No idea.
It'd be great if Iran's regime could turn the internet back on so we could here from them ourselves honestly.
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HardlyW0rkingHard1 day ago
+1
Iran is a country of 90 million. There is about 10 million in diaspora. There is no singular yes or no vote.
However, between him and other opposition and the irgc, he is by far the most popular show. He’s also not trying to be opposition in the sense that he wants to be the future leader, he is only committing to transitional government
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feral01012 days ago
+18
Yeah, and he’s also just a Ghani 2.0. Nobody except Israelis and a few LA Iranians want him no matter how hard the bots try to push him.
His a mediocre man who is more American than Iranian. Hes done nothing worthy of leadership and will just be a moronic and uncharming version of his dad
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True_Window_93891 day ago
+19
In fairness, the people who launch coups or are installed as leaders always say it’s temporary.
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LilyBelle5041 day ago
-2
True. Hopefully he's not like his father though?
I think a lot of people are almost wanting him to be bad like his father so they can be... right? Even though that was his father who did bad things, and not him?
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feral01011 day ago
Or because installing an unpopular monarchy in 2026 is just really stupid?
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LilyBelle5041 day ago
Source?
I haven't seen a poll on Iranians in 2026 and what they think of him as a transitional leader. Though I've seen a lot of people claim he's really unpopular with them.
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feral01011 day ago
There is no credible current poll, but do you really need a poll to know that people don’t want a monarchy in 2026?
Here’s one copy/pasted from my other comment
>This is from 2013, but that exiled clown only ever shows his face when Iran is in trouble anyway. Only 15% of Iranian Americans said they supported any opposition group or figure at all. Among that 15% subset, respondents were asked who they supported. Reza Pahlavi received about 20% of that subgroup. That’s 3% of the American-Iranian diaspora
https://www.paaia.org/CMS/paaia-releases-2013-national-survey-of-iranian-americans-2
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LilyBelle5041 day ago
Well, that poll is 13 years old. I wouldn't really go by that data as certainty. A lots changed since then.
>do you really need a poll to know that people don’t want a monarchy in 2026?
Well:
1. I would like data before I say with certainty in any particular direction. For or against.
2. An absolute monarchy, probably not. A constitutional monarchy, maybe. Many democratic countries today have monarchies: Britain for example. My assumption is Iranians would be thinking something similar if they did want one.
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feral01011 day ago
+1
What has Pahlavi done since to change people’s mind? I know. *Nothing*.
There is no definitive and current poll saying Americans don’t want a random Dutch guy (me) as the King of the US. Sometimes you just have to use some common sense.
His father was a brutal monarch that was overthrown with widespread public support. He then lingered around in the US and only ever showed his face whenever Iran was in geopolitical hot water.
Even the Americans (smartly) ruled him out because he’s not a workable op.
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TheWizard1 day ago
+4
I'm married to an Iranian so I've been observing this for a while. The issue I see (and tell my wife) is that his leadership approach is lacking. He mentions no interest in anything but as an interim leader but he fails to show qualities of both: fails as a leader (thousands have died chanting his name but he didn't think it though, bending over to please Trump and Netanyahu), and if he isn't really interested, could he not find someone more neutral to be that interim leader instead of himself?
He has come across as a weak person.
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LilyBelle5041 day ago
+3
>could he not find someone more neutral to be that interim leader instead of himself?
From what I've understood. It was Iranians themselves who were chanting his name and for the old royal family to return.
I haven't really heard of any opposition names other than his being chanted, have you?
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TheWizard1 day ago
+1
I am aware of it, and even my five year old has (without knowing what it means), but he hasn't helped the cause either. He revels in it. Sometimes I feel that many of those doing it, and others waving Israeli flag on matters in Iran, are actually regime's plants to neutralize the opposition. These are self-defeating stances that plays in their favor.
Its strange that Iranians, opposed to the regime, have not found any leadership outside of Pahlavi, anywhere in the world.
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LilyBelle5041 day ago
+1
>others waving Israeli flag on matters in Iran, are actually regime's plants to neutralize the opposition.
I would hope not.
I imagine you wife who you said is Iranian, is probably generally supportive of getting rid of the regime?
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TheWizard1 day ago
+1
Yes, and I'm too. She is also not keen on Shah beyond an interim leader. But that doesn't work well for people who are opposed to the regime but don't want Shah either (I know quite a few Iranians that fall in this category). So, you've chosen to keep them out with this pro-Shah stance, and weakened your position.
On top of that, those waving Israeli flag in Iranian congregations, have to be utterly stupid or plants as they are actively pushing away support for Iranian people opposed to the regime. I've also seen and personally heard derogatory remarks against Palestinians, which is pathetic... on one side the same person wants the world to be empathetic to their suffering (in Iran) but mock the same in Palestine. BOTH people are suffering with a humanitarian crisis due to despotism. The fact that this hypocrisy is so easily visible, is disgusting. Nevermind that Pahlavi hasn't uttered a word on the subject, which demonstrates a lack of empathy, and intelligence that are necessary in a good leader.
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feral01012 days ago
+1
Copied from my other comment. Slightly dated but bent anti-IRGC is does mean being pro-Pahlavi
This is from 2013, but that exiled clown only ever shows his face when Iran is in trouble anyway. Only 15% of Iranian Americans said they supported any opposition group or figure at all. Among that 15% subset, respondents were asked who they supported. Reza Pahlavi received about 20% of that subgroup. That’s 3% of the American-Iranian diaspora lol
https://www.paaia.org/CMS/paaia-releases-2013-national-survey-of-iranian-americans-2
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HormuzVengeance2 days ago
-9
You talk a lot of wrong information as you speak on behalf of actual Iranians.
Javid shah (long live the king) is the chant for this lion and sun revolution, and the calls came from INSIDE Iran prior to the massacre in January where the regime slaughtered tens of thousands of civilians in cold blood on the streets.
There is currently an internet blackout on Iran by the regime. 92 million people have not had internet access for over a month now. That’s the longest time in history.
You aren’t hearing any Iranian voices because they’re being silenced. Everything coming out of Iran is carefully curated regime propaganda.
It’s not just LA. Look at all the rallies in the world. Look Canada. I’m in the UK - look at Manchester and London.
Even people who aren’t in favour of a constitutional monarchy as the next government of a free Iran are still rallying behind Pahlavi because as it stands he is the face of the opposition to the occupying terrorist junta that is islamic republic.
He himself has stated that the plan is for a transitional government followed by a referendum where people vote in the type of government they want - and the two most talked about styles in the Iranian circles are between a constitutional monarchy and a republican system.
We diaspora are carrying the voices of Iranians whilst they have been silenced until such a time that they get their voice back.
You are incorrect that he has little support. He is supported globally by Iranians as the opposition to IR.
Iran will be free one day, and hopefully that one day is soon.
Edit: lol downvoted for advocating for a free Iran from an Iranian perspective.
Did it hurt your feefees?
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kblkbl1652 days ago
+11
This here looks like a very legit account guys.
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TheWizard1 day ago
+1
TBH, I'm quite familiar with people that speak the same language without caring for implications of their words and actions. They are also mocking Palestinians, and treat them as enemies, wave Israeli flags... all the while asking for sympathy for thousands of their own people being killed. It's hypocritical, and self-defeating. I was surrounded by people like him (including one holding this very Sassanian flag) at the CPAC event in Dallas.
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Emotional-Dress86192 days ago
+6
if the iranian people want him ig its their choice then
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HormuzVengeance2 days ago
Correct. Whether or not he actually becomes a king in a new constitutional monarchy (like UK) remains to be seen and voted on. The first and most important step is for the occupying islamic regime to be eliminated.
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PastryAssassinDeux2 days ago
+12
“Pahlavi's government has been described by critics as an "oppressive police state".[329] The state's secret police, SAVAK, carried out large-scale torture against thousands of political prisoners. Methods included "not only electric shock and beatings, but also the insertion of bottles in the rectum, hanging weights from testicles, r***, and such apparatus as a helmet that, worn over the head of the victim, magnifies his own screams." Such methods were used against many intellectuals, artists, writers, and other perceived dissidents.[5] Pahlavi has been described as "autocratic" and "deeply unpopular".”
is this true mr "fellow Iranian"
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Kasspa2 days ago
+6
Couldn't you just re-word it as "Current Islamic Republic Iranian regime" in place of "Pahlavi's government" and it still be true and the same?
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HormuzVengeance2 days ago
Savak operated in the exact same capacity as all other national security organisations like CIA, MI5 etc. It existed to protect national security.
At its peak it only had 2500-3000 detainees all of whom were communist terrorists, sectarian segregationists, and islamic terrorists hellbent on destroying Iran for their own political and religious agenda.
It was a national security organisation. If you oppose savak you should also oppose CIA, MI5; and support any person who wants to ruin a country for their own agenda.
Savak gets blown so so SO much out of proportion and this is a calculated play by the islamic regime as a means to completely discredit any support for Pahlavi because they themselves were the same type of people that savak worked to stop.
There is a strong documented history of the islamic regime propagandists rewriting Wikipedia specifically in order to push their own narrative. This historical revisionism is because they themselves were the main people savak was targeting.
Was savak a cookie cutter clean organisation? Of course not - like all national security organisations. Neither is the cia.
Is it blown out of proportion? Yes.
NOTHING that savak did comes close to the absolute hell that islamic regime has unleashed on Iran. Nothing.
Highlighting savak only serves to shift the light from their own human rights abuses, which is why it happens so much.
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PastryAssassinDeux2 days ago
+7
> Methods included "not only electric shock and beatings, but also the insertion of bottles in the rectum, hanging weights from testicles, r***, and such apparatus as a helmet that, worn over the head of the victim, magnifies his own screams.
damn so are you mr "fellow iranian" defending this shit? or are you saying its fake news?
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HormuzVengeance2 days ago
+3
Why would I defend it if it happened exactly like that?
You also don’t have to put anything in quotation marks. I am Iranian.
Some of it may be true, but a lot of it is probably over exaggerated by the islamic regime.
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LilyBelle5041 day ago
+1
I don't think anyone should be defending this stuff as the former regime was bad...
Though everything here is about his father, not him right?
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Kappalonia2 days ago
+4
Teeraaamb blease bomb eyeraan
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feral01012 days ago
-1
Bro this is just a whole bunch of waffle. Pahlavi is not a viable candidate and never was. Even the US doesn’t want him. Iranians had 47 years to voice their opinion prior to this blackout.
Give it up, monarchism is kinda based but Pahlavi is a bought and paid for man that is genuinely unremarkable. I don’t doubt that many Iranians want a less corrupt gov, but the Pahlavi dynasty is dead and buried with his old man.
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HormuzVengeance2 days ago
-1
Iranians did voice their opinion. They were all murdered.
Nothing that I have outlined is waffle. You’re welcome to look into every single point that I made and find it’s all true.
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feral01012 days ago
+7
This is from 2013, but that exiled clown only ever shows his face when Iran is in trouble anyway.
Only 15% of Iranian Americans said they supported any opposition group or figure at all. Among that 15% subset, respondents were asked who they supported. Reza Pahlavi received about 20% of that subgroup. That’s 3% of the American-Iranian diaspora lol
https://www.paaia.org/CMS/paaia-releases-2013-national-survey-of-iranian-americans-2
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HormuzVengeance2 days ago
+4
Why are you quoting something from 13 years ago and insinuating it’s relevant today with today’s bespoke situation?
You can easily debunk that by looking at some of the rallies that have taken place in US, Toronto, London etc.
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feral01012 days ago
+6
Why wouldn’t I? There is no other credible poll. What has Pahlavi done in the last 13 years that would suddenly award him support? Never showed his face just came out of the wood work to lick Israeli ass the moment Iran started getting fked up. The only thing that has changed is social media bot campaigns.
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HormuzVengeance2 days ago
+7
Nope. Read my first reply to your comment because I’m not going to repeat myself. You’re ignoring everything that I said and just showing childish insults around. We’re done with this discussion. Good day.
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TheColourOfHeartache2 days ago
+5
His dad was a saint compared to the current regime.
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Hairy_gonad2 days ago
+17
I don’t understand why people parrot this. The current regime is evil, but the former shah of Iran is no better.
From Wikipedia: “Pahlavi's government has been described by critics as an "oppressive police state".[329] The state's secret police, SAVAK, carried out large-scale torture against thousands of political prisoners. Methods included "not only electric shock and beatings, but also the insertion of bottles in the rectum, hanging weights from testicles, r***, and such apparatus as a helmet that, worn over the head of the victim, magnifies his own screams." Such methods were used against many intellectuals, artists, writers, and other perceived dissidents.[5] Pahlavi has been described as "autocratic" and "deeply unpopular".”
We’d be replacing one murderous regime with another. I’d rather people just be honest. That they want a regime that’s allied to us, rather than dressing it up as a moral necessity to replace them with the shah.
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Realistic_Swan_68012 days ago
+14
The new regime out did the shah in killings by a factor of 10 in its first year?
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zachxyz2 days ago
+14
SAVAK became the IRGC. In fact, they killed more people the months following the revolution than the entire time prior.
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TheColourOfHeartache2 days ago
+11
Your source says they killed thousands, total. The IRGC killed tens of thousands in one week.
So I stand by my point.
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Hairy_gonad1 day ago
-4
So we’re playing numerical atrocities? Just be honest and say I want a murderous regime that’s allied to the west. It’s understandable in this world, it’s the pretending like we’re saving the Iranian people by placing this regime back in charge that’s annoying.
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HardlyW0rkingHard2 days ago
+8
His father wasn't perfect. Savak was a glaring flaw. However they were also trained by CIA and they dealt with people like khamenei and rafasnaji that formed the Islamic Republic.
That was also 60 years ago and standards worldwide have changed a lot since then.
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Sudden_Standard_7481 day ago
+1
Because nothing this guy has said suggests he'll do anything like that. He comes across as wise and intelligent. Just because his father was a bad guy doesn't mean he will be. He has actually said he's for peace with Israel for instance.
And all of that is still far better than the current regime which quite casually slaughtered 40,000 people back in January and has been passively threatening the world with nuclear weapons for over a decade.
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CreepySniper942 days ago
+39
He wants western countries to join the war, Yeah no thanks we're good go talk to the gulf states first since they're being attacked.
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Jaxraged1 day ago
+8
Just one more regime change bro then geopolitics will be solved.
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Sudden_Standard_7481 day ago
+1
Well, do you want North Korea recreated in the Middle East? I think we can all agree the North Korean regime is a bad thing. Why on Earth would you want North Korea 2.0 in the Middle East? Because that's what everyone is suggesting.... A crazy unstable regime that threatens the world with nukes and hangs it's own people for petty offences.
Trump's war isn't wrong per se. It's the complete lack of effective planning that is the actual wrong thing.
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HereticLaserHaggis2 days ago
+4
Get the boys together for another eight nation alliance.
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Ro-ftw2 days ago
-7
Eh you say that while constantly crying over the increasing cost of gas and fuel and every other day there's a new terror attack of some sort now. Head in the sand...
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FluoroquinolonesKill2 days ago
+3
They probably think that if we “just let Iran be,” then Iran will just let everyone else be like they used to. Except, Iran was the opposite of letting everyone else be, and they would have eventually figured out how exploit the straight anyway - especially when they inevitably acquired nukes.
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government_not_ok2 days ago
+17
Iranian diaspora, this is your calling, leave shitposting behind and show us that you’re really about that life.
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call-the-wizards2 days ago
+31
If you only got your news from listnook you'd have absolutely no idea that many Iranians inside the country [chanted his name in January](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62wx1gr8y4o) (facing live bullets) and nearly a million people worldwide [gathered in support](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/iran-support-rally-toronto-february-14-2026-9.7090479) for him in February. There were 250k in Munich alone.
You may not like him but to a lot of Iranians he represents a life before the mullahs.
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persetuur2 days ago
+8
Hmm, looks like the BBC has absolutely no idea how many chanted his name either.
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TheColourOfHeartache2 days ago
+6
Yep. I was one of them. I'm not Iranian, but after the mass murder of protestors I looked for Iranian protests in my country and turned out to show support. His face was *everywhere*!
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Sudden_Standard_7481 day ago
+2
I think he's one of the better options for a leader. He doesn't seem nearly as homicidal as his father. Quite the opposite actually. I've never understood why he continues to be called the Crown Prince of Iran though.
Kingship is one of the only things in the universe that is transmitted faster than light. Once the old king dies. His son is king. It's not contingent on being coronated. King Charles 3rd was king before his coronation for example. So he's not the Crown Prince of Iran, he's the King because his father is dead.
Or at least he is either the king or he's just a normal citizen. Calling him the crown prince makes zero sense.
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Sweet_Concept22111 day ago
+1
78 million people voted for Trump. That does not make him a great leader.
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TruthSeeker18012 days ago
-4
Exactly this, do I 100% trust him to honour his promise to build a democratic system? No, but allowing him the chance could be exactly what Iran needs, opposition to the current regime is near universal and he is the largest opposition figure. If Iran is ever to be free the people need a figure to rally behind, he is the only person who can provide that and it is clear he already has widespread support.
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smokeyleo132 days ago
-5
Have you enlisted?
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GaiusAutisticus2 days ago
-6
Ok cool, sounds like they can all group up and handle it themselves instead of begging western taxpayers
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MrShake42 days ago
+14
They did. Then the IRGC shot them.
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GaiusAutisticus1 day ago
So now my country needs to send our youth to die so this old guy can sit on his imaginary throne? K dude, f*** off forever.
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Sergeantson2 days ago
+9
I hope he forms an army from western Iranian diaspora and tries to invade Iran.
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whorificustotalus2 days ago
+15
The Iranian diaspora can get their asses off their Western couches and go fight if they want, I don't want to die in a war on the other side of the planet, I'm good.
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GalacticMetric1 day ago
+1
How does an unarmed populist fight a government willing to commit mass murder using their foreign allies?
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Any-Interaction60662 days ago
-2
This. So sick of always seeing people who fled demand we bomb their ex-countries. Israel and the US will gladly suit them up and send them in under their own banner. They should be the change they want to see.
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Initial_Plastic_38292 days ago
+7
Was macht diese Privatperson in der Bundespressekonferenz und warum gibt man ihm dort eine Bühne?
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Actual-Carpenter-902 days ago
+10
Just because the current regime is bad doesn’t mean the people of Iran want this garbage instead.
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captain_adjective2 days ago
+2
It doesn’t mean they don’t want it either.
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Sweet_Concept22111 day ago
+1
Pretty sure the people of Iran aren't eager for the bombing to restart.
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captain_adjective1 day ago
I’m pretty sure of that too, but OOP is referring to regime quality, not the mechanism by which regime change is accomplished. We don’t know the true feelings of ordinary Iranians about who should lead them because it’s deadly for them to dissent. That’s really horrifying. That is what I’m referring to.
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HormuzVengeance2 days ago
-4
Yes it does. That’s literally what they were saying that got tens of thousands killed in January.
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Lase1892 days ago
+5
The funniest thing about this guy was when they asked if he'll go back to Iran to be king, he basically said he would like to work from home from America.
It's insane how far work from home has come over the years lol
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HardlyW0rkingHard2 days ago
+14
He literally said 2 days ago he will return to Iran to lead the transitional government even if it costs him his life. What are you talking about?
What you're referring to his the fact that he said he isn't interested in a full time future after a referendum has been held.
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Lase1892 days ago
-6
If he's so serious about it, he should go there right now and lead the opposition instead of waiting for the transitional government.
His supporters need him the most right now.
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HardlyW0rkingHard2 days ago
+12
Before there is an opportunity to form a transitional government forms, there is zero reward for that risk.
He is the in the position he is today because of the mix of his influence and the fact that he is not inside Iran. The regime would massacre someone like that as soon as they land in the country. It's not the right time.
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Lase1892 days ago
-4
It's not happening.
Iran is a country full of shia zealots. You think any progressive country makes religious clerics supreme leaders?
Sure, there are modern progressive people in Iran but they're outnumbered by the highly motivated shias.
I can't see how it's be possible to bring about a regime change.
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HardlyW0rkingHard2 days ago
+5
Iran is not what you described. Yes, in the 70/80's, Iran was about 50-60% Muslim (not even just shia). Today that percentage is about 30% Muslim, about half of which are sunni. Things in Iran have changed a lot since the revolution. Yes, the mosques had a lot of attendance in the 70's when the revolution was set up, but nowadays the mosques have very little attendance. This regime is supported by about 10% of the population.
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Lase1892 days ago
+2
Maybe, I don't know much about the ground reality in Iran.
To me as an outsider, it looks like a cope. You can't suppress a population of 92 million like that.
If it was a military dictatorship I could make sense of that but vilayat-e-faqih with only 10% support in this day and age?
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HardlyW0rkingHard2 days ago
+5
When the 10% have all the weapons it's absolutely possible.
It's more common than you think. They massacred 45k+ in 2 nights in January.
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Lase1892 days ago
+2
And those 45k people had no relatives or friends in the army, bureaucracy or the corridors of power that could lead to a rebellion?
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HardlyW0rkingHard1 day ago
+2
Oh dont get me wrong, the January massacre has pushed this regime into a corner. There is too much blood spilled for things to just go back to normal. But religious theocracies are structured in a way that segregates people. I know for a fact that there are many deserters but the hardliners are the type that fantasize about martyrdom..... These people will be a problem.
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NotACyborg6662 days ago
+6
It's a clerical dictatorship with an incredibly strong oppressive apparatus that includes the military. It's basically a military dictatorship under the guise of being a religious dictatorship.
They don't care how violent they get when they suppress dissidents either. Crowd of thousands turns up in the streets and they'll open fire from a truck with a machine gun mounted on the back.
It's annecdotal evidence, but I have tons of family and friends back in Iran & have gone back to Iran several times since I left... I can count the number of regime supporters I've met on 1 finger.
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smokeyleo132 days ago
-1
He needs a bunch of 20 year olds from Ohio to bleed out in the mountains for him first
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Brazilian_Brit1 day ago
+3
He did 20 years in the can.
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PossessivePronoun1 day ago
+3
He ate grilled cheese off the radiator.
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rgvtim2 days ago
+4
Yea, this guy needs to sit down.
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9millibros2 days ago
+6
Why yes, western countries imposing an unelected leader on Iran. How could that possibly go wrong?
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lyreluna1 day ago
+2
Apparently we didn't learn the first time
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Future_Mousse_3551 day ago
+4
If he thinks Iranians want him he must be as nuts as Trump.
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ZaireekaFuzz2 days ago
+6
Reza Pahlavi totally wants the western world to help him reclaim his rightful throne, so much so that he's willing to Facetime as Iran's leader on Tuesday afternoons from his California mansion.
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NotACyborg6662 days ago
+3
I'm pretty sure he lives in Baltimore
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HardlyW0rkingHard2 days ago
+4
His never said a thing about wanting to be king.
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ClassEastern12381 day ago
He already crowned himself Reza Shah II, King of Iran, decades ago. Has he abandoned his claim or abdicated?
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HardlyW0rkingHard1 day ago
+2
He has never said this. He was inaugurated as crown prince when his father was still alive, but that was a long time ago. Where did you hear that? A few months ago he literally asked in a statement for people to stop calling him king.
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_KarsaOrlong2 days ago
+1
What happened to the 50k-100k Iranian regime defectors Pahlavi promised? Wouldn't this be a good time for them to do something if they existed?
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omni20111 day ago
+2
Why would the German government meet with him? This guy is delusional lol
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sayinmer2 days ago
+2
no way jose
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monotvtv2 days ago
+1
So the restoration plan is: install a king on Zoom from California? Peak modern monarchy.
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KingRaphion1 day ago
-2
Classic reddiots backing the IRGC and making excuses to why they slaughtered tens of thousands of people. Its so funny how peoples hate for trump is so deep seated that they would rather back a regime that held the world hostage with the Straight of hormuz (and still attacked their allied ships) and literally killed tens of thousands of their own people. Constantly opress women and treat them as 2nd class citizens, and constantly kill members of the LGBTQ LOL. The very side that chants for womens rights, LGBTQ rights support the very side that would murder them in the streets for being a woman and for loving the same sex.
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JordiX931 day ago
+10
Yeah bro IRGC sucks so does this puppet too,both things can be true at the same time is really not a hard concept to understand
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nu1stunna1 day ago
-3
It’s more than just their hate for Trump. These people are so eager to prove that they are “inclusive” that they see the word “Islam” and bend over. It’s why Europe is so afraid to do anything. They don’t want to offend their Muslim populations and it’s pathetic. 90 million Iranians be damned — the random Pakistani in London wants an ayatollah in Tehran. Most of this regime’s supporters aren’t even Iranian.
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blumonste2 days ago
He or his descendants will not get to enslave Iranians. Why doesn't he go live in Israel?
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fuggitdude222 days ago
+1
This guy is asking people across the world to die for him to be a "transitional leader". He practically brings nothing to the table, he is only known as the heir, who brought the Mullahs into power in the first place.
I would be able to take him and his staunch supporters as serious people if they organized something like the Brigade 2506.
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FrostingLegal71172 days ago
+1
If the Iranian people could vote on their next leader... Would they elect a foreign king?
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Deepfire_DM2 days ago
+1
Yeah, a trump friendly monarch as "new hope"?
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Neilandio1 day ago
+1
All I see this guy doing is asking others for help while demanding to rule because his daddy was king. Literally treating the west as his servants meant to serve him Iran in a silver platter. If you want to rule Iran f****** DO something, if you do nothing you have no more right to rule than any other Iranian expat.
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Prestigious-Lynx25522 days ago
"Aisin Gioro Puyi appeals to Japan for support in liberating Manchukuo"
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xmuskorx2 days ago
-1
I am getting more and more Viserys Targaryen / Beggar King vibes
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MarshallGibsonLP2 days ago
Could a future president deport him to Iran?
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Oozingmachism01 day ago
If he cares about his country, why was he resting in his femininity all these times instead of training his army in Lebanon or something?
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TheWizard1 day ago
-1
Pahlavi chose to align with Netanyahu and Trump, bending over backwards just like his dad did in 1953. That itself has been enough to push away the actual leaders and people who could have helped the cause. On top of it, his supporters are openly mocking Palestinians and their dealings with humanitarian crisis, further solidifying the support for Netanyahu and Trump, to the disgust of every one else. Not having empathy but asking for it. Between that, and the fact what his father did, many Iranians would rather just continue with the current regime.
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DzoQiEuoi2 days ago
-5
The only person who thinks the current regime is too democratic.
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TruthSeeker18012 days ago
+4
He wants to build a democracy
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lyreluna1 day ago
You don't build democracies with nepo babies
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DzoQiEuoi2 days ago
-3
With a hereditary head of state?
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TruthSeeker18011 day ago
+4
Many of the most successful democracies are constitutional monarchies. Plus he is also just as supportive of a republic as he is a constitutional monarchy. He wants to build a secular democracy in Iran and let the people decide if there should be a monarchy or not.
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theperipherypeople1 day ago
Hahhahahahhahahhahahahahahha
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theperipherypeople1 day ago
-1
Hahahhahahahahahahaha
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Wall-SWE1 day ago
-6
In a democracy he would have no claim to power, and he is in no way suited to be in power in Iran. Yet this is what he seeks because his father was a dictator.
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TruthSeeker18011 day ago
+3
He has expressed no desire to be in charge long term, he wants either a constitutional monarchy or a republic, he doesn't care which so long as it is democratic. Of course he could be lying but there is no reason to assume that, especially since he is the only figure who the Iranian opposition can currently rally behind.
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Wall-SWE1 day ago
-1
He has no qualifications what so ever and he hasn't lived and doesn't live in Iran. His only connection to Iran is that his father was a dictator. He should not be allowed to be anywhere near an Iranian government position.
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TruthSeeker18011 day ago
+2
His qualification is that he is the leading opposition figure and has been for decades, his father was a POS but that doesn't mean he is. He shouldn't be completely trusted but he should be given a chance if the circumstances are right, otherwise Iran will never break free of the current regime.
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theperipherypeople1 day ago
+2
Bro did you buy bots to upvote your posts and downvote others?
Are you Joe Lonsdale? F****** 'truth seeker' hahha haha America is done guys, pack it up
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doolpicate1 day ago
US puppet regime?
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IngloriousMustards1 day ago
We’re watching two dystopian despots fight. Best we can do is throw some popcorn into the ring.
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regarded-cfd-trader1 day ago
fucken puppet
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theperipherypeople1 day ago
Anyone who supports this f****** clown is either collecting money from Peter Thiel, or is too f****** stupid to see they're being played by tech billionaires.
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Master-Rent50501 day ago
+1
Look, USA has a long tradition of supporting clowns (since at least Vietnam)
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