Iran’s exiled ‘crown prince’ says he is ready to take over from Khamenei

PARIS — The exiled son of Iran’s last shah today offered himself up as interim leader to take over running the country, as he called on the West to give its full-throated backing to regime change. 

Reza Pahlavi, whose supporters style him as the “Crown Prince of Iran,” appealed to the international community to help the Iranian people force out Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his religious dictatorship. 

In part that requires military action to dismantle the regime’s apparatus of terror but it also needs practical steps to support opposition groups with better internet and communications, as well as backing for mass strikes, Pahlavi told POLITICO in an interview in Paris on Monday.