SpaceWar.com reports: “The son of Iran’s late shah appealed Friday to the country’s security forces to abandon the cleric-run state, voicing hope for toppling the Islamic republic after Israel launched military strikes.
Reza Pahlavi blamed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for having ‘dragged Iran into a war’ with Israel and described the government in Tehran as ‘weak and divided.’
‘It could fall. As I have told my compatriots: Iran is yours and yours to reclaim. I am with you. Stay strong and we will win,’ he said in a statement.
‘I have told the military, police, and security forces: break from the regime. Honor the oath of any honorable serviceman. Join the people.’
‘To the international community: do not throw yet another lifeline to this dying, terrorist regime,’ he said.
Pahlavi was crown prince in Iran’s pro-Western monarchy, which collapsed in 1979 in a mass revolution that quickly brought to power the clerical establishment that declared an Islamic republic…”
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