After publishing my criticism of Mr Reza Pahlavi’s interview with Focus on Line, like many others who have criticized him, I came under a barrage of attack. Defences of his actions have tended to be based on two arguments: first, that Focus on line misrepresented his views, and second that he was right to say that Iranians did not deserve democracy when his father was on the throne and that Reza Pahlavi remains the legal king of Iran.
However, one point in the interview has never been challenged by monarchists (and I just noticed it yesterday), and it is therefore safe to assume that the magazine, at least in this case, has told the truth . This is his point that ‘some [former] revolutionaries are coming to me and saying that it would have been better if my father had arrested or executed them.’
By admitting such a thing, by default, Reza Pahlavi agrees that his father was a murderer. Otherwise, instead of criticizing those who wished to be executed by his father and asking them why they would think his father was an executioner, he uses their words approvingly in order to make his point. So here I need to thank Mr Reza Pahlavi, for admitting that his father was a murderer.
