Reza Pahlavi is an Iranian political activist and the former Crown Prince of the Pahlavi dynasty of Iran. He is the eldest son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the exiled Shah of Iran, and his wife, Empress Farah. He is the resident of the United States as a dissident. He has three children: Noor Pahlavi, Iman Pahlavi, Farah Pahlavi. He was a member of Iran’s national football team (2013–2017). His education was in William College, American University in Cairo, and University of Southern California. His bachelor of science, he practiced his faith in Twelver Shia Islam.
Reza Pahlavi was officially designated Crown Prince of Iran during his father’s coronation in 1967 as a cadet in the Imperial Iranian Air Force. He moved to the United States to undergo pilot training at Reese Air Force Base in 1978. In 1979, his father was overthrown and the monarchy was abolished during the Iranian Revolution led by Ruhollah Khomeini. In 1980, at the death of his father in exile in Cairo, Reza Pahlavi declared himself Shah of Iran, adopting the title “Reza Shah II,” and became active in political opposition to the Islamic Republic from abroad.
In 2013, he co-founded the Iran National Council (INC). He has advocated holding a nationwide referendum to determine the country’s future system of government. Pahlavi has urged Iranians to redetermine the Islamic Republic and asked his fellow people to work for the removal of the current regime. He, like his father, advocates Iran should become an ally of the Western world and Israel. Many Iranian show supporters of Pahlavi. He has been described as the main opposition figure during the Israel-Iran war of 2025. Iranian protests, although many Iranians who were suffering in Pahlavi’s monarchy era do not want to give a second chance to him, but one thing is very clear that he is only a most favorable person. In Iran, if present regime is toppled.
Bob Woodward wrote in 1986 that the Reagan administration authorized the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to support and fund Iranian exiles, including Pahlavi. The agency transmitted his 11-minute speech, during which he vowed, “I will return,” by bugging Iranian television frequencies. A Freedom Tower Commission report, published in 1987, while a group in Paris calling itself “Flag of Freedom” had taken responsibility for the act in September 1986. According to James Mann, who wrote in February 1989 that when he asked agency whether they helped Pahlavi, they said “we would not confirm nor deny an intelligence matter.”
In 2009, Pahlavi denied receiving U.S. government or foreign aid in an interview with The New York Times. Pahlavi said, “No no I don’t rely on any sources other than my own compatriot,” and also denied allegations “absolutely and unequivocally false.”
In 2017, he told the Associated Press, “My focus right now is on liberating Iran, and I will find any means that I can without compromising the national interests and independence, with anyone who is willing to give us a hand, whether it is the United States or Saudi Arabia or whoever it is.”
As the complete peace time is coming near day by day, Pahlavi struggles to walk to his dreamer. His peak, but one thing he should remember is that the regime of Iran is toppled, but Iran’s constitution is not suspended, and in the present constitution, because the Iranian revolutionary leader, Ruhollah Khomeini, is not abolished. Monarchy in Iran.
Now a question to President Trump stands, being a proud American and a leader and light of democracy in the world, will snatch democracy from the people of Iran and push them under the feet of monarchy, which people of Iran have expelled from their country with huge human sacrifices.
– Reza Pahlavi has a right to enter the government of Iran, by democracy, by the Iranian people, to Iran.
– As a Pakistani, I ask Pahlavi to remember Pakistan and let Pakistan grow and eat from their land and drink water from their springs.
– Reza Pahlavi, I wish you best.