Reacting to each threat from Iran’s proxy groups independently, as if they were independent, will leave Israel in a perpetual state of vulnerability, Reza Pahlavi, exiled Crown Prince and last Shah of Iran, told an Iranian flag-wielding crowd on Friday afternoon at the Israeli-American Council’s national summit in Washington, DC.
It’s time to draw a red line, he said, but sadly, “that red line had to be drawn with the blood of innocent civilians.”
“Solidarity is no longer sufficient”
“My friends, in the past year, Iranians and Israelis have stood in solidarity. But solidarity is no longer sufficient,” Pahlavi said. “Now it is time to do more than stand side-by-side. It is time to act hand-in-hand as we stand on this precipice together. The question I put before you today is simple: are you ready to do more than stand together? Are you ready to act together?”
The people of Iran have made their stance clear, Pahlavi said, and are fighting against this regime every day with no support from the outside world.
“We need to revive maximum pressure on the Islamic Republic,” he said. “We need to offer maximum support to the people of Iran, and we need to facilitate maximum defections from the regime, so that we can peacefully transition from this criminal dictatorship to the secular democracy the Iranian people are fighting for.”
“And when the light and the sun rise again, the world will see a new dawn of peace.”
