Part 6: Reza Pahlavi
This article is a part of an eleven part series:
- What is this article about
- Early days of the democratic movement
- The kingdom of Pahlavi
Pre-revolution
Revolution
- Reza Pahlavi 👈
- Rajavi and MEK
- Recent political activities
Reformists
- Iran and superpowers
Conclusion
Monarchists: Reza Pahlavi
Initially, Reza Pahlavi was very popular among the people, especially those opposed to the revolution. Based on what he kept saying, people believed that he had changed his mind, and instead of wanting to bring back another dictatorship, like what his father had, he wanted to bring democracy to Iran. But he never resigned from his made-up position as the "crown prince".
Here is an example of American-backed psychopaths who support Reza Pahlavi and earn money from "pretending to be the opposition":
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Lately, he announced his plans to establish a new made-up type of regime, named "electional monarchy"! 🤡 Which seems to be a clown version of the existing type of system we already have. So he lost his popularity among people. As a result of that, when he asked people to sign a petition to support him, he could get about five hundred thousand signatures, which is not even 1% of the Iranian population! This happened even though some of his supporters were proudly saying on social media that they had used multiple fake accounts to sign the petition multiple times!
He also asked people to sign another petition to support him, so that he could ask the US government to give him billions of dollars of Iran's frozen assets, to strengthen his power and feed into his global gang! He failed that, too.
In 2024, ManotoTV, a UK and Pahlavi-based media in London that was mainly promoting monarchy and Reza Pahlavi's dictatorship, had to shut down because they had almost not audience left, as Iranians are mostly against any lifetime dictatorship or any sort of fundamentalism, whether it is a lifetime monarchy, a lifetime theocracy, or a lifetime communism. After a while, they could convince Israel and Saudi investors to support them, and with that, they could start again, but this time with limited functionality. Later again, they ran out of money and shut down.
Here is an example of Reza Pahlavi's extremist supporters in the UK attacking people who believe in democracy and the right of voting:
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As you see and hear, a few men attacked an Iranian woman in the UK who only wanted to vote! This is the kind of "democracy" that the US, UK, and Israel, their allies, and their extremist gangster puppets, Pahlavi and Rajavi, want for Iran!
During the past few decades, Pahlavi has done nothing but create a gang of extreme followers, who are very much the same as what the current system and Rajavi have created for themselves. Their main job is to silence anyone who is against their masters and to eliminate democratic activists. Pahlavi, Rajavi, and all the separatist terrorists earn money from foreign states by "pretending to be the opposition"! That's why they eliminate rivals to access higher funds. In the past few decades, Reza Pahlavi, together with Maryam Rajavin and the extremists inside Iran who all financially benefit from sanctions have been supporting the inhumane US sanctions. They also use such sanctions as a tool to eliminate their rivals.
Here is an example: Reza Pahlavi's pro-monarchy fans, MEK's pro-communist extremists, and Western-backed armed Kurdish separatists were attacking other Iranians in Sweden who believe in democracy and the right to vote:
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This is also another example of some of the "top leaders of Reza Pahlavi's gang" threatening to kill or rape people who believe in democracy and the right to vote. In most of their events, they publicly say they are against democracy and the right to vote! And all these things happen in Europe, the US, the UK, and Canada, and with the legal and financial help from the West! That's why they openly threaten to rape others!
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Unfortunately, this video is not translated, so if you do not understand Farsi/Persian language, you won't understand what they say.
These are just a few examples of what these gangs and their brainwashed followers have done against democracy in Iran.
How popular Reza Pahlavi is?
Reza Pahlavi used to be a bit popular a few years after the revolution, when people saw some extreme parts of Velayat-e Faqih, the theocratic religious kingdom. But, as time passed, people realized that everything Reza Pahlavi said was just lies, and he just wanted to become the next dictator and steal money. These days, each week, Reza Pahlavi, similar to Maryam Rajavi who owns a US/European-backed t3rrorist cult, travels to different countries to speak. He keeps repeating that he wants to become "the new leader" and "Iranians have already chosen him!" 🤡 (Who exactly, sir?! and when??) 😆
Reza Pahlavi's campaign on Change.org
For example, a few months after the "Zan, Zendegi, Azadi" movement that began after the death of Mahsa Amini (which is something that some also say might have been terrorized by Israeli agents in Iran), Reza Pahlavi ran a big campaign all over social media and even the Persian TV channels that he or Israel owns, and asked his supporters to sign a petition to give him the power of attorney to lead the opposition.
He could only get about 500,000 signatures, not even 1% of the Iranian population! (bear in mind that Maryam Rajavi even has fewer supporters than this) This disaster happened while some of his supporters proudly and publicly said on social media that they had created multiple fake email addresses and used them to sign the petition multiple times! Even with such a level of fraud and disastrous embarrassment, his apple polishers still say more than 90% of Iranians support him! 😆🤦
It has been a kind of joke among Iranians that Reza Pahlavi (similar to Maryam Rajavi) has been asking people to come on the streets in support of him, and even in Europe and the US, where people can freely express their support for anyone "against Iran", usually fewer than 20 people show up! 😆 Most of them are even Israeli citizens who can barely speak Farsi and pretend to be his "Iranian supporters"! (read part3, if you haven't already, to understand why Israel supports Pahlavi)
I know some of these Farsi-speaking Israeli guys because I used to organize pro-democracy events in Copenhagen, and one of them even approached me later and shared many things with me. I had seen that guy in one of the previous protests, where my friends asked him to stop waving the monarchist flag in our "supposed to be diverse" event, but he didn't respect our request and continued promoting Reza Pahlavi and pretending that our event was theirs! He was also the person behind encouraging people on social media to attack Iran's embassy in Denmark! Which is a terrorist act based on international law! An Israeli was promoting a terrorist attack on Iran's embassy. Of course, we have many double standards in the West, and no one did anything to him. He might even be a Mossad t3rrorist agent, who knows.
Supporters of Reza Palavi
Far-right monarchist terrorist organizations
One of the most notorious Iranian far-right organizations is Tondar (also known as the Kingdom Assembly of Iran or Anjoman-e Padeshahi-e Iran), run by the extremist monarchists close to Reza Pahlavi. Foroud Fouladvand founded this organization, and it was later led, in part, by Jamshid Sharmahd. The group advocates for the violent overthrow of the Iranian semi-democratic government and the restoration of the complete dictatorship monarchy under Reza Pahlavi. Unlike other opposition groups that promote civil disobedience or political reform, Tondar openly embraced terrorism as a legitimate tactic. In 2008, a deadly bombing at the Hosseiniye Seyyed o Shohada in Shiraz killed 14 people and injured over 200, mostly worshipers, including women and children. Iranian authorities found out the bombing was linked to the terrorist organization of Tondar, and Jamshid Sharmahd later appeared on his own television and online platforms, effectively boasting about the group’s role in the attack!!!
Sharmahd operated from Germany for many years, where he hosted propaganda websites and livestreams inciting far-right anti-Muslim fascism, violence, and promoting militant monarchism. Despite clear signs of his group’s terrorist activities, including a public history of incitement and a self-declared mission to sabotage Iranian infrastructure, the German government supported him to reside and broadcast freely. He even reportedly attempted to acquire explosives for further attacks. This raises troubling questions about Germany’s selective approach to counterterrorism. Germany not only congratulated an Al-Qaeda ISIS terrorist leader, Jolani, for taking over Syria and killing tens of thousands of civilians for Israel's benefit, but it also appeared to support far-right extremist fascists like Sharmahd.
Germany’s double standards are deeply concerning. By allowing Sharmahd to operate on its soil, it effectively gave safe harbor to a man implicated in mass murder. If a Muslim activist in Iran had carried out or praised a similar bombing in Europe, they would have rightly faced immediate international condemnation and arrest. The double standard not only undermines the West’s credibility in fighting terrorism but also endangers innocent lives by providing impunity to violent actors under the guise of “dissidence.” The case of Tondar and Sharmahd illustrates the dangerous consequences of allowing ideological bias to interfere with consistent counterterror policy.
In the video below, he confesses live on his own TV that he collaborated with the FBI, ran armed terrorist activities in Iran to cause chaos in the country. Later, this Western-backed terrorist was arrested by the Iranian intelligence forces and returned to the country, and went to trial.
Bear in mind that Tondar might not be the only terrorist organization close to Pahlavi, especially due to the fact that many Iranians think Israel occasionally uses bothPahlavi's terrorists, Rajavi's terrorists, or Kord/Azeri/Baloch armed terrorist separatists, or even Afghan extremists who have found their ways to illegally enter Iran, especially after the US gave Afghanistan to the Taliban in a ridiculous show, to create chaos by terrorizing and killing Iranian civilians, and then use that as an excuse to justify their inhumane sanctions, which mainly target the lives of ~90 million Iranian civilians.
A bit about the Iranian flag
The oldest flag found in Iran is the Bronze Age Shahdad Standard, found in Shahdad, Kerman province, dating back to c.2400 BCE, made of bronze. It features a seated man and a kneeling woman facing each other, with a star in between.
The lion and sun were a symbol of Iran for many years and were used by many dynasties, including the Ghaznavian,
Zandian, Afsharian, and Qajarian.
In recent years, we had different versions of the flag. Naval ensign, Civil flag, and State flag:
As you can see, we have almost always had three versions of the flag in recent centuries: the civil flag, the state flag, and the naval ensign. The civil flag is used by the people, the state flag is used by the government, and the naval ensign is used by the navy. What even the majority of the new generation of Iranians don't know is that the lion and sun symbol was used recently to serve the monarch and his state; While the civil flag was just the three colors representing green as Shia Islam, white as peace, and red as valor and blood of the martyrs.
You can read more about the history of the Iranian flag here.
Flags used by the "opposition" outside of Iran
If you have been to one of the recent independent protests, you probably have seen protestors bringing the old civil
flag with them:
But, in the opposition, four groups still bring different versions of the "lion and sun" flag. (either with or without a lion and/or sword)
1) The monarchists who support the dictatorship of Reza Pahlavi. (this one has a sword in it)
2) The MEK (Mujaheddin Khalgh) who supports the "communist terrorist fundamentalist" dictatorship of Maryam Rajavi who wants to make Iran like North Korea. (this one has a sword in it, but also sometimes they mix their flags with the ones that are used by the monarchists to fake it and pretend their number of supporters is more than what it actually is)
3) The Arab/Iraqi-Kurdish separatists multiple armed t3rrorist groups, who kill civilians (even Kords of Iran), and all want to create a new "occupier country, based on the idea of thinking they have "pure blood", similar to what Israel was founded on. And the US, Israel, and some European countries have been helping these armed civilian-killers for decades. (this one only has a sun in it)
4) Those who don't know that the "lion and sun" represents the dictatorship of the king and the state. I used to be one of them before I read from various sources and learned the history of my country. These people think that the "lion and sun", even the one with the sword, represents Iran. Why? Because of the lies that Reza Pahlavi's and Maryam Rajavi's propaganda machine has been spreading for years!
Here are the different versions of flags that the opposition outside Iran brings with them:
Officially, this is our current National flag:
And this is
Derafsh Kaviani, the oldest "civil flag" of Iran, and the sign of society's
movement against any sort of dictatorship:
The symbol of Derafsh Kaviani is a lotus flower, which refers to the royal stars of Persia, and its history goes back to ancient Iranian beliefs from the Achaemenid Empire period. That's why some monarchists misuse that idea and say, "this belongs to us!" even though the whole story behind it is to push back against any dictator.
You can probably see any of these flags if you attend any of the protests. Some relate to these extreme gangs who "pretend to be the opposition" and use that as an excuse to earn funds from the West (Pahlavi, Rajavi, Kurdish/Balouch separatists). Some relate to pro-democracy activists, who are constantly targeted by the West, and their extreme puppets/gangs, plus their allies inside Iran (Ahmadi Nejad, Jalili, etc).
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Part 7: Rajavi and MEK
