A leading Iranian opposition figure accused the United States Monday of looking to restore the monarchy in Iran and backing Reza Pahlavi, the son of the late shah. "The United States wishes to restore the monarchy in Iran. They think that Reza Pahlavi is the alternative to the current regime," said Ebrahim Yazdi, who heads the Iran Freedom Movement (IFM), in comments to the daily Ehtemad. Yazdi, who returned to Iran in April from an 18-month medical stay in the United States and currently faces charges of harming national security, said Washington had appointed "some people to play the role of advisors" to Pahlavi, who resides in the United States.
Actually, I don't think we care. Do you care? I don't care. I'm not even sure Reza Pahlavi cares, as long as what they get is different from what they have. They can be a monarchy, they can be a republic, they can be a parliamentary democracy. What we don't want is for them to be an autocracy, which includes most forms of theocracy that have ever appeared... |