Noor Pahlavi is the oldest daughter of Reza Pahlavi, the son of the last Shah of Iran. She was born in Washington, D.C., in 1992 and raised and educated in the United States, following her family’s exile from Iran after the 1979 Islamic revolution in that troubled country.
Now she’s adding her voice to those of her father and others calling for the ouster of Iran’s vicious theocracy.
Noor Pahlavi’s heart breaks as she watches her people suffer in Iran – a land in which she never stepped foot, yet remains forever in her blood.
The exiled princess recounted in a wide-ranging interview with The California Post the horrors inflicted on protesters, parents and even children during a crackdown by the same brutal regime that deposed her grandfather, the Shah of Iran, 47 years ago.
Kids have been shot in the street, doctors persecuted for treating anti-regime protesters and scores of Iranians abducted for secretive interrogations, often never to return, Pahlavi said.
We’ve seen all these things recounted before. The mullahs that are running Iran have a lot to answer for, and speaking from the United States, Noor Pahlavi has a pretty good take on the whole affair. She clearly still sees Iran as her ancestral homeland, despite having been born and raised in the United States.
“Imagine if this were happening to you and your country,” she said. “It’s happening at the hands of the government, the government that’s meant to protect them.
“It’s literally a government waging war on its own citizens. It’s just incredibly painful to watch, to hear about. And it’s hard for people here to see and hear about. But it’s our responsibility not to look away.”
Pahlavi’s passionate plea for regime change comes as the protests against the regime persist, on the streets of Iran and worldwide – including a massive rally in her newfound home of Los Angeles.
The protests run parallel with President Trump’s renewed saber rattling against Iran. He has sent two aircraft carriers to the Middle East as he weighs a military strike, giving Tehran a 10-day ultimatum.
The confluence of pressures from inside and outside Iran shows the regime has never been so ripe for change, Pahlavi said.
“It’s never been this close, and the regime has never been this weak,” she said.
We can hope.
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Of course, the best thing for Iran isn’t a return to the monarchy. The late Shah’s rule wasn’t without its problems, and if Noor Pahlavi and her father have learned nothing else from their lives in the West, it should be that liberty is the only acceptable condition for humans to live in. Not under a king, not under a theocrat.
But prominent people like the Pahlavis can be a rallying point for the rebels to gather around. They can inspire greater efforts, and they can help with the transition once the mullahs are kicked out, one way or another; maybe Putin would have them. Reza Pahlavi has offered to help organize an interim government, should the rebels succeed in defenestrating the theocracy.
Iran’s overdue to shake these vicious barbarians out. The people of Iran have had enough, and the rest of the world has had enough of Iran’s never-ending sponsorship of Islamic terrorists. It’s time for a change. If the mullahs aren’t looking out into the streets and seeing Mussolini’s fate growing more and more likely for them, then they really aren’t paying much attention to history. Noor Pahlavi’s speaking out may well inspire even greater effort, and if it does, then it’s well worth her time.
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