Exiled Iranian crown prince says regime ‘crumbling’ after killing of Khamenei

Exiled Iranian crown prince Reza Pahlavi said Saturday that Iran’s Islamic Republic is “crumbling” and that Iranians are ready to reclaim their country, one week after what he described as U.S. and Israeli military operations that he said killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and nearly 50 other regime figures, he told Fox News.

“The situation on the ground is the fact that people obviously were waiting for an opportunity to get back to the streets to take their country back,” Pahlavi said on “My View” with Lara Trump. He said he has seen “more and more elements of the regime crumbling” and that many people inside Iran are prepared to step in.

Pahlavi said the Iranian people would not accept any outcome tied to the current regime and urged what he called “only a clean break” to ensure a democratic solution. “There will be people who are not in any form or shape directly associated with this regime,” he said.

He said the transition should leave the choice to Iranians and that “only the ballot box should determine the outcome.” Pahlavi called on Western democracies, including the U.S., to allow Iranians to make that choice freely and to support the result.

Pahlavi, the son of the late Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, has lived in exile since the 1979 Islamic Revolution and has positioned himself as a unifying opposition figure. He told Fox News a democratic Iran would bring regional stability and economic opportunity, saying the U.S. economy could see more than $1 trillion in revenue over the first decade of new Iranian leadership.

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