While the Trump administration continues to put the economic squeeze on what and who is left of the Iranian government, the Iranian royal family in exile hasn’t been silent.
Reza Pahlavi, the Crown Prince and heir to his father, the late Shah of Iran, has been keeping up the constant drumbeat of return, even though he has been effectively iced out of any negotiations between the Trump administration and the Islamic regime.
That is as it must be. Operation Epic Fury had distinct parameters for the security of the world and the United States, and not one of them was returning a Pahlavi to the throne. The last thing Trump would need, especially in the middle of all this nutzoid Democratic squawking about losing, is being accused of installing a king.
Nope, nope, nope.
Although, as Trump has said, if the conditions arise where the Americans have eased the way for the people of Iran to rise up at last and overthrow the monsters who have held them prisoners for almost fifty years, he is delighted he could help.
If his current economic strangulation continues in the face of regime intransigence, it may finally collapse sooner rather than later, as those oil storage facilities reach their tippy tops and the Iranians face a choice. They either shut the wells down or pump crude into the Persian Gulf to keep them operational.
In any event, it’s a financial catastrophe.
Pahlavi was in Berlin today, a city that has an Iranian expatriate community of some 300,000 members and there was quite a welcome.
Today Berlin #RezaPahlaviForIran pic.twitter.com/zd9tWMUEGM
— Tinaa Keshaa (@KeshaaTina42608) April 23, 2026
He held a news conference, and then, in a stunning breach of security, when he was leaving, one of the pro-regime protestors got close enough to the Crown Prince to fling either paint or tomato sauce on the back of his neck.
This is amazing to me in this day and age.
Where was the security guard?
He is the Shah of Iran. You must have taken care of him!
It is shameful.
Punish him ! pic.twitter.com/msI0o9gGGg— Titane (@Atane_MIS) April 23, 2026
The Telegraph UK said part of the press gathering had been focused on Pahlavi’s reaction to the on-again, off-again US-regime negotiations, which, unsurprisingly, Pahlavi is not a fan of.
…Mr Pahlavi is the son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Iran’s former shah, who ruled the country from 1941 until he was forced from power in 1979, setting in motion the establishment of the Islamic Republic.
While he has spent his life in exile, Mr Pahlavi has been working to project himself as a future leader in the country, meeting with government officials, supporters and the media.
German media said hundreds of his supporters gathered to watch him speak at Germany’s federal press conference building on Thursday.
A supporter of the Israeli and US attacks on his country, Mr Pahlavi criticised the ceasefire announced by Donald Trump on April 3.
It’s easy enough to understand where he’s coming from, but he’s also on the outside looking in.
That’s just how it is.
What was really interesting was how he handled the European press. There is strong anti-Israel sentiment all through the European Union and that was obvious from one of the questions the Crown Prince received.
I don’t think the reporter was prepared for the strength of the answer he got back.
It was absolutely beautiful.
And then he gives the reporter a lesson on European democracies.
I edit the post:
He actually said “the only country in the Middle East that harbored Jews escaping Hitler..”— Mααԋι🐟 (@Luneamahsa) April 23, 2026
…After reminding them about Cyrus the Great, he added:
“In modern history, Iran is the only country that harbored Jews escaping Hitler and his regime.”
Mic. Dropped.🎤
It’s actually wild that a German journalist feels comfortable throwing shade on Jews and Israel.
Prince Reza Pahlavi stays classy, stays truthful, and stays based.
But that wasn’t the end of what he had to say, although it was the end of the news conference.
When he got a few moments to himself, the Crown Prince issued a statement that surely should have singed some hairs in European quarters, had they any shame at all. A Europe that has cravenly taken the side of a murderous, fanatic, tyrannical regime over the people it has oppressed and abused for 47 years.
He called them all out for the posturing hypocrites they are.
🚨PRINCE REZA PAHLAVI JUST WENT FULL NUCLEAR ON THE ENTIRE EU PRESS & PARLIAMENT! 🔥🧨
I want to speak DIRECTLY to the people of Europe. In the past two weeks I held TWO MAJOR press conferences — one in Stockholm, one in Berlin. Over 150 JOURNALISTS showed up. We spent MORE THAN… pic.twitter.com/s9digeOfFd
— Neo (@Realneo101) April 24, 2026
We spent MORE THAN TWO HOURS with them…
And guess what?
NOT ONE SINGLE of those 150 journalists asked about the 40,000 IRANIANS SLAUGHTERED on the streets of my country on January 8th and 9th!
NOT ONE asked about the 19 political prisoners EXECUTED in the last two weeks.
When I told them 20 more are currently sentenced to death — CRICKETS. Not a damn question.
I stood right next to a grieving mother and father who lost their sons in that massacre and begged them to listen to their stories…
NOT A SINGLE ONE of those 150 journalists asked them a thing.
Let that sink in.
My 40,000 BRAVE INNOCENT COMPATRIOTS who were butchered fighting for liberty? They don’t give a damn.
They are too busy criticizing America and Israel for taking out the dictator who’s been slaughtering our people for 47 YEARS — instead of going after the regime that’s actually doing the killing!
They’d rather dig up Iran’s history than talk about what’s happening RIGHT NOW or the free democratic Iran we’re fighting for.
One EU parliament member even had the nerve to say Iranians aren’t ready for democracy. To that coward and to every fake journalist in the room I say this:
Iranians aren’t just “ready” for democracy… 40,000 of them just DIED for it! And I will NOT let their blood be in vain.
SO HEAR ME LOUD AND CLEAR:
Whether Europe stands with us or not…
Whether your journalists do their damn jobs or not…
Whether your politicians grow a spine or not…
I WILL FIGHT FOR MY PEOPLE AND MY COUNTRY.
Even if we have to do this ALONE — we are fighting until IRAN IS FREE! 🇮🇷
Damn.
So powerful and so very, very true.
I sure hope he makes it to Tehran just for what he said in those sneering Euro-faces today.
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