Reza Pahlavi blasts Trump’s Iran agreement, predicts it will fail

Exiled Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi denounces Trump administration’s interim agreement with Tehran, says regime will not uphold deal.

By World Israel News Staff

Exiled Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi warned Tuesday that any US-Iran agreement that leaves Iran’s current government in place is unlikely to last, saying the Islamic Republic cannot be trusted to make peace abroad while continuing to repress its own citizens.

Pahlavi, the son of Iran’s last shah, issued the warning as Washington and Tehran moved toward signing a new agreement and after he met members of Parliament during a visit to London.

“Dealing with this regime will fail, and we will all face the consequences,” Pahlavi wrote in a post to his X account.

He said Western governments should place greater emphasis on Iranian opposition forces and protesters rather than pursuing an agreement with Tehran’s current leadership.

“The regime’s 47-year war against the Iranian people continues. Just as it has never made peace with its own citizens, it will never truly make peace with the world,” he said.

“As it signs a memorandum of understanding for ‘peace,’ the Islamic Republic just executed two more protesters from January 8 and 9. This is the consequence of making a deal with this criminal regime,” he wrote.

“This is the consequence of making a deal with this criminal regime. To do a deal with a regime that murdered more than 40,000 protesters in two days in January is morally wrong and strategically misguided.”

Pahlavi argued that a deal preserving the Islamic Republic, or elements of it, would not be accepted by Iranians opposed to the regime.

“Any agreement that preserves this regime or its remnants will fail. The Iranian people will not accept it,” he said.

“With or without international support, the people of Iran will overthrow this regime. Freedom will come to Iran.”

Pahlavi’s comments came amid debate over whether the US should seek a diplomatic arrangement with Tehran or support a broader change in Iran’s political system.

President Donald Trump has previously expressed caution about directly backing Pahlavi as a future leader of Iran, saying in January that he was unsure whether the opposition figure would have enough support inside the country.

“He seems very nice, but I don’t know how he’d play within his own country,” Trump said at the time. “And we really aren’t up to that point yet.”

Pahlavi has long called for a secular democratic system in Iran and has said the country’s future form of government should be decided by Iranians through a referendum.

His supporters view him as a unifying symbol for opposition to the Islamic Republic, while critics question the role of the former royal family and point to the authoritarian record of his father’s rule before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Iran’s last shah, left the country in January 1979 during the revolution that brought the Islamic Republic to power. Reza Pahlavi has lived in exile for decades and has remained active in opposition politics, repeatedly urging Western governments to increase support for anti-regime movements inside Iran.