Reuters investigative report on “Reza Pahlavi’s shaky bid for leadership of Iran”

🔸Reza Pahlavi, the last heir apparent of Iran, in an interview with Reuters news agency as part of the outlet’s investigative report about his efforts to move past the Islamic Republic, said that he is “not the destination, but a bridge to reach the destination.”

🔸In the detailed report that Reuters published on Tuesday, the 6th of Mordad, titled “Regime change? A look at Reza Pahlavi’s shaky bid for leadership of Iran,” it states that the eldest son of Mohammad Reza Shah is currently “struggling with disgruntled financial backers, rejection from Washington, and the violence of some of his supporters.”

🔸For all that, in an interview lasting nearly half an hour with the report’s authors, Pahlavi emphasized that the Islamic Republic, despite all its problems, “is on the brink of collapse” and that he himself is “a bridge toward a democratic future” for Iran.

🔸To produce this report, Reuters conducted interviews with more than 50 people, including eight individuals who are still in contact with Mr. Pahlavi or who had been in contact with him previously.

🔸Some of these individuals had been major financial supporters of Reza Pahlavi’s bid to lead the people in order to move past the current government in the country who, as Reuters writes, are now disappointed and dissatisfied with him.

🔸Fewer than 10 of these financial backers in the recent period—meaning after the 12-day war in the summer of 1404 and “after, in the month of Dey, thousands of people in Iran chanted Reza Pahlavi’s name”—contributed more than three million dollars to Pahlavi’s office.

Dara Khosrowshahi, the CEO of Uber, and Hamid Moghadam, the CEO of the real estate giant Prologis in the United States, were among the people who ultimately helped fund Pahlavi’s office, but they are now dissatisfied with his leadership.

🔸Read the full version of this report on the Radio Farda website.