Washington, D.C. — In a robust assertion issued this week, Prince Reza Pahlavi criticized ongoing nuclear negotiations between the United States and the Islamic Republic, warning that such diplomacy would solely serve to strengthen a faltering regime and delay instability throughout the Middle East.
“These nuclear talks won’t convey peace to the Middle East,” Pahlavi said. “This regime doesn’t negotiate in good religion. It makes use of diplomacy as a tactic—to purchase time, ease stress, and tighten its grip on energy.”
The exiled crown prince, broadly thought to be probably the most distinguished opposition determine to Iran’s clerical regime, argued that renewed talks danger throwing a “lifeline to a crumbling dictatorship” whose management is fractured, economic system is in free fall, and grip on energy is being challenged by a resurgent inhabitants.
“The Islamic Republic is at its weakest level in 46 years,” he added. “Its persons are rising. In simply the previous few weeks, protests have erupted once more throughout the nation. Change is already occurring. This just isn’t the time to rescue a dying regime.”
Pahlavi urged the United States and its European allies—particularly the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Italy—to align themselves with the Iranian individuals, not the regime.
“Make a cope with the individuals of Iran,” he stated, “not a cope with the extremists in Tehran.”
His remarks come as oblique talks between U.S. and Iranian officers are reportedly going down in Rome, amid rising concern amongst Iranian activists and diaspora communities that Western governments could also be on the verge of reviving diplomatic and monetary engagement with the regime in Tehran.
