Reza Pahlavi Calls for Pressure on Iran’s Regime and Support for Iranians

And on Monday, the U.N. actually tapped Iran to serve as vice president of its Nuclear

Non-Proliferation Conference.

Here with more on this and all the top stories coming out of Iran, the crown prince of Iran,

Reza Pahlavi, is back with us.

Let's get your take where we are now.

The one missing piece that I would like to see filled is I'd like to see the Iranian

people armed.

I know that there are attempts to do it.

I don't know if they're successful.

I just think that that would be the next logical step.

What would you like to see happen?

Good evening, Sean.

Good to be back with you.

What's going to be the ultimate endgame is for the people of Iran to reclaim their country.

In order to do that, they need to have an equalized playing field.

What happened on January 8th and 9th of this year was a massacre to the tune of 40,000

people that were killed in less than 24 hours.

That cannot be a legacy of any country that believes in the fact that the Iranian people

need to be liberated.

In fact, they called for this intervention as a means to find a way out.

General Keen is absolutely right.

This regime doesn't care about the Iranian people.

If it did, it would not have brought us to a point of complete collapse, isolation, as

a result of their warmongering and terrorism.

But the boots on the ground have always been, and should be, the people of Iran themselves.

But they need extra help.

And I totally agree that staying the course is the best remedy.

Keep the pressure on them.

Target the regime's infrastructure.

Make sure the people of Iran have now a chance to finally come back to the streets.

Let's not leave this job half done.

Let's go all the way.

Let me ask you.

I mean, now that the top three tiers of leadership have pretty much been wiped out, maybe the

fourth tier needs to go.

There's obviously a struggle for power, more hardliners versus people that seemingly

want a deal.

You know, it's inexplicable, if you're an outsider looking in, how do you possibly

explain that they will honor President Trump's request not to hang the women that were scheduled

to be hung, on the one hand?

And yet, on the other hand, they will cling to this idea that they can still remain a

nuclear power, which is absolutely, positively a nonstarter and nonnegotiable.

And now that they're headed to a point they can't store their oil, they're going to have

to cap those oil wells, and they'll never come back to anywhere near the capacity they

have now.

How do you explain what's going on there?

Well, of course, all the measures that are taken to bring more pressure on the regime

are at play.

But what's also at play is the consequences of this regime continuing to survive.

And that is ultimately going to hurt our country, in the sense that recovering from

after the mess that will be left behind will be quite a tough hill to climb, which is

why, given the current circumstances, it's the best opportunity, while you're at it,

to get the job done.

Let's understand one thing, Sean.

This regime and its nature has never been moderate.

It has always been radical.

There's no such thing as moderate in this system.

In fact, if you listen to their rhetoric—and it's not just sloganism, they actually believe

what they say—when they threaten to retaliate, to take revenge over the killing of their

supreme leader, meaning President Trump directly, and, of course, retaliating against the countries

in the region, I don't think anybody will breathe a sigh of relief as long as this regime

continues to exist.

It's been weakened, but not to the point of collapse.

There are still certain elements of the system that continue to function.

These need to be also addressed.

These need to also be targeted.

Once the regime is on the verge of collapse, the people will be ready to take over.

This has to be a synchronized campaign.

We are doing our part as a nation.

We need the outside help.

It did come, but it cannot stop halfway.

The regime never intended to negotiate.

It probably will not.

I mentioned that in previous interviews.

And the reason is that in this—their DNA, they simply cannot coexist with a free world.

They are out there with the ambition of exporting an ideology.

Let me ask you, 200 percent inflation rate, the currency value is now zero, half their

workforce is out of work, they're going to soon be running out of gasoline themselves.

How much longer can that, whatever remains of the old regime, stay propped up?

And how does this end?

Well, Sean, the secret to their survival so far is sheer repression.

This regime has not stopped killing people.

It continues to execute people almost every day.

That's basically what this regime is doing.

But if they run out of cash, they simply cannot pay their mercenaries, they cannot sustain

their apparatus, they will be basically bankrupt.

And that's also another way to put pressure on them.

So it's good to keep maximum pressure, but I think the military campaign has to go all

the way to finally bring them down.

Reza Pahlavi, we appreciate you being with us tonight.

Thank you.