Statement by 160 Political Prisoners and Activists Inside Iran: Our Red Line Is Iran and Prince Reza Pahlavi

160 monarchist political prisoners and justice-seeking families, emphasizing that “our red line is Iran and Prince Reza Pahlavi”, declared in a statement their support for his leadership in passing beyond the Islamic Republic, and condemned efforts to manufacture controversy and create rifts among the forces of the struggle.

In the Exalted Name of Iran

Statement of Monarchist Political Prisoners and Justice-Seeking Families Inside the Country

Our Red Line Is Iran and Prince Reza Pahlavi

We stand in hard and difficult days; days in which the people of Iran live with hardship under the pressure of inflation, soaring prices, poverty, economic instability, expensive and low-quality fuel, and dozens of crises manufactured by the Islamic Republic.

Even so, hope has not departed from the hearts of the Iranian people.

Every morning when we open our eyes, instead of hearing news about the future of Iran, we witness in social media and the press insults, sowing of division, manufactured controversies, and attacks directed against one another and especially against the Iran-building Pahlavi family and Prince Reza Pahlavi.

But for us, these distractions not only fail to destroy our hope, they strengthen our resolve to bring the life of the Islamic Republic to an end.

For 47 years the Islamic Republic and the currents dependent on and aligned with it have stood against the Pahlavi family and its Iran-building legacy.
Yet today, after nearly half a century, one truth is clearer than ever:

The name Pahlavi is still alive in the hearts of a great part of the Iranian people, and hope for a free, prosperous and powerful future is still bound to the name of Iran.

We, the monarchist political prisoners and the fighters inside Iran, who have paid the heavy price of standing against the Islamic Republic with our freedom, our safety and our lives, declare that we support the leader of the national uprising, Prince Reza Pahlavi, and his office and his team.

We believe that to pass through this darkness Iran needs, above all, solidarity, leadership, organization and national trust; and we consider Prince Reza Pahlavi one of the most important figures on this path.

For this reason, we condemn every insult, act of defamation, manufactured controversy and attempt to create a rift between the King and the nation.

Likewise, the choice of his advisers, assistants and team members lies within the framework of his own responsibility and authority, and we do not accept attempts to destroy these individuals merely through rumour, accusation, labelling and undocumented narratives.

Our red line is Iran;
and on the path of today’s struggle, our support for Prince Reza Pahlavi is inviolable.

The Masks Fall; the Faces Are Revealed

For years, some have tried with a thousand faces and a thousand narratives to damage the trust of the people. But today the people look less at claims and slogans than at action, steadfastness and the record of individuals.

Prince Reza Pahlavi and his team have no need of masks. What matters to us is the future of Iran; an Iran that is free, prosperous, powerful, secular, democratic and proud, in which human dignity and the rights of the people are respected.

It is natural that any current and any individual who takes a step to change the future of Iran will face attack, slander and defamation. But these attacks must not divert us from the main goal.

Our goal is not the Islamic Republic, that we should debate its sideshows; our goal is to end the Islamic Republic and to build the future of Iran.

We ask all freedom-seeking forces not to make personal disputes and distractions a pretext for breaking the ranks of the people.

Today, more than ever, we need unity, discipline, responsibility and focus on saving Iran.

Anyone, by any name and in any position, so long as they stand beside the people of Iran and on the path of the freedom and honour of the homeland, deserves respect.

But we will not allow disputes, insults and media games to silence the voice of the people of Iran.

However many the masks may be, the truth will in the end reveal itself.

We are in prison, but our hope is free.
We are in chains, but our ideal is Iran.
We have paid a price, but we have not given up on the future of Iran.

And until the day the sun of freedom shines upon Iran, we stand by our belief:

The unbreakable bond of King and nation
One nation, one flag, one Iran.

Long live Iran
Javid Shah

The names of the signatories are withheld for security reasons.