The exiled son of Iran’s last shah today offered himself up as interim leader to take over running the country as it transitions away from dictatorship.
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I offer to be King of England as they transition away from the Windsor dynasty
jun 23, 2025, 2:10 pm • 2 0 • view
wake up babe new Chalabi just dropped
jun 23, 2025, 4:03 pm • 3 0 • view
Hahaha bon intent, rata
jun 23, 2025, 11:52 am • 0 0 • view
Fake news
jun 23, 2025, 5:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh, HELLLLLLLLLLL no.
jun 23, 2025, 12:06 pm • 1 0 • view
I offer myself up as interim leader of Iran instead as my father did NOT brutalise dissidents, murder protesters and sell off national resources to Anglo-US corporations, then run away like a little bitch when the consequences came back to bite him
jun 24, 2025, 1:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Let me guess, the US gets some good oil deals in return?
jun 23, 2025, 12:31 pm • 4 0 • view
jun 23, 2025, 9:56 pm • 0 0 • view
dictator dictates dictatorship just re-running the failures of iraq & this one is Ahmed chalabi en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_C...
jun 23, 2025, 3:17 pm • 0 0 • view
I saw a picture of him with Netanyahu. I’m sure he’d make a great puppet for Israel & America, just like his father.
jun 23, 2025, 6:46 pm • 6 0 • view
One photo means nothing. World leaders and relatives to world leaders have photos all the time
jun 23, 2025, 9:07 pm • 2 0 • view
Thank you for the scheduled bad take, anime pfp
jun 24, 2025, 1:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Thanks for admitting you don't know how diplomacy works
jun 24, 2025, 2:46 pm • 2 0 • view
I should be thanking you for further proving how much of a moron you are, considering you don’t understand context or optics
jun 24, 2025, 4:40 pm • 0 0 • view
"I can't provide context I can only insult you because I don't know how to debate" Kindly delete your account
jun 24, 2025, 4:42 pm • 2 0 • view
‘I’m a self-obsessed idiot who thinks I deserve civility when I am publicly showing how much of an idiot I am. I routinely mistake disgust with debate, as if I’m worth anything other than contempt’. Go fuck yourself, anime pfp, snd maybe read any book on modern history. Hell, any book at all
jun 24, 2025, 4:45 pm • 1 0 • view
You literally insulted first but ok And it's a VTuber pfp but I guess your ability to reverse image search doesn't work
jun 24, 2025, 4:50 pm • 3 0 • view
Like I said, I’m not interested enough to google you, you self-obsessed moron. It says volumes about you that you keep insisting I should. Fucking USian narcissists istg
jun 24, 2025, 5:10 pm • 0 0 • view
jun 24, 2025, 1:06 am • 0 0 • view
Ahmed Chalabi but somehow worse.
jun 23, 2025, 2:19 pm • 10 0 • view
Holy fuck this might be the stupidest shit I’ve seen in weeks.
jun 23, 2025, 2:47 pm • 5 0 • view
Iranians don’t need Imperial spawn. Are SAVAKs crones forgotten now?
jun 23, 2025, 12:00 pm • 2 0 • view
Of course he did.
jun 23, 2025, 12:07 pm • 0 0 • view
NO KINGS, EH GUYS?
jun 23, 2025, 3:00 pm • 1 0 • view
jun 23, 2025, 2:54 pm • 2 0 • view
Right! Keep it in the extremism family! Stay the F out of the Middle East. Trump you Fucked up! Already firing mussels at Qatar US base! Trump you are freaking gullible and extreme narcissist. Firing will start back anytime now. Trump lives adoration hour by hour! Sick sick man!
jun 24, 2025, 7:44 am • 1 0 • view
Lol
jun 23, 2025, 12:12 pm • 1 0 • view
Gross
jun 23, 2025, 2:46 pm • 1 0 • view
How generous!
jun 23, 2025, 2:27 pm • 0 0 • view
oh wow did he just think of it randomly?
jun 23, 2025, 2:13 pm • 14 0 • view
Obvious solution is to let their parliament be in charge.
jun 23, 2025, 12:05 pm • 1 0 • view
😂😂 yeah, right. Fk royalty.
jun 23, 2025, 6:00 pm • 1 0 • view
You forgot the canned laughter at the end
jun 23, 2025, 2:48 pm • 3 0 • view
Does he have the same spotless pedigree as Ahmed Chalabi? (sarcasm)
jun 23, 2025, 4:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh yeah because Americans installing an evil dictator to serve their interests in Iran worked so great the last time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Ir...
jun 23, 2025, 12:31 pm • 30 1 • view
"transition away from dictatorship?" WTF are you talking about you gaslighting rag?! The Shah was the dictator, and this royal puppet would be another one. Clearly America's definition of 'freedom' and 'democracy' abroad is a dictator friendly to American interests. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamma...
jun 23, 2025, 12:46 pm • 23 1 • view
Unfortunately, that's always what it has meant. Sometimes the US would install a regime that would go through the motions of elections (after arresting or killing the opposition) like in South Vietnam, but often they'd just install a military dictatorship like South Korea until the 1990s.
jun 23, 2025, 5:38 pm • 2 0 • view
Or Pinochet in Chile after the CIA-orchestrated coup to overthrow the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Ch...
jun 23, 2025, 5:42 pm • 2 0 • view
I am a descendant of the last Tsar Nicholaus II of Russia and hereby offer to take over running the country from Putin.
jun 23, 2025, 2:21 pm • 85 0 • view
Your odds are as good as his. 😅
jun 23, 2025, 3:06 pm • 10 0 • view
Cunning plan :-) Odesa. Ukraine.
jun 24, 2025, 3:07 am • 0 0 • view
Can I be the new shah remotely or are they strict about coming into the office every day
jun 23, 2025, 4:39 pm • 0 0 • view
I offer myself up as the Prince Regnant of Michigan to take over running the state as we transition away from democracy.
jun 23, 2025, 2:42 pm • 2 0 • view
Can history just not repeat itself *this much*?
jun 23, 2025, 2:35 pm • 12 0 • view
Brave or stupid, I can't decide. If he returned to Iran he would have the life expectancy of a fruit fly. Besides, other than possible nostalgia by some older Iranians what is his competency at running a country? Just say no & enjoy your life, hopefully a long one, in exile.
jun 23, 2025, 4:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Anyone ask him how his granddad became Shah in 1925?
jun 23, 2025, 2:52 pm • 2 1 • view
… are they actually transitioning away from theo dictatorship? Seems optimistic..
jun 23, 2025, 3:31 pm • 1 0 • view
I can trace my lineage to Cyrus, so hmu Iran, when you're looking for your "not a dictator" to take over.
jun 23, 2025, 2:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Send him back to negotiate a deal. Then he won't talk so loud.
jun 23, 2025, 12:28 pm • 3 0 • view
Oh, he would be the not dictator king like his father.
jun 23, 2025, 2:19 pm • 0 0 • view
jun 23, 2025, 12:01 pm • 2 0 • view
lol.
jun 23, 2025, 2:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Looks at the history of US backed regime change. Looks at this guy. Yeah, I could see him in military fatigues and sun glasses, disappearing critics to off grid death camps.
jun 23, 2025, 2:33 pm • 1 0 • view
How kind and generous of him. /sarcasm
jun 23, 2025, 1:15 pm • 1 0 • view
The ultimate nepo baby. Hasn't even been in the country since his family left Iran with a giant pile of cash.
jun 24, 2025, 12:15 am • 5 0 • view
Does Mosaddegh have any descendants they could elect instead?
jun 23, 2025, 4:00 pm • 0 0 • view
LOL, they'll really love that! Does this guy have any idea what his father did?
jun 24, 2025, 12:23 am • 0 0 • view
The last one caused the uprising that resulted in the current Iran.
jun 24, 2025, 3:54 pm • 0 0 • view
So will Savak rise again too ?
jun 23, 2025, 11:59 am • 2 0 • view
What a vile creature.
jun 23, 2025, 12:09 pm • 2 0 • view
Wanker!
jun 23, 2025, 2:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Previous dictator's son wants to be the dictatorial replacement of the current dictator? What could possibly go wrong?
jun 23, 2025, 11:55 am • 65 0 • view
are you kidding me
jun 23, 2025, 2:09 pm • 1 0 • view
nope they are actually trying it
jun 23, 2025, 2:13 pm • 1 0 • view
I thought it was "no kings"?
jun 23, 2025, 3:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Guys we found out our new Chalabi
jun 23, 2025, 2:45 pm • 5 0 • view
American style 'democracy' coming right up.....
jun 23, 2025, 11:58 am • 0 0 • view
oh my god that is the worst idea in the universe
jun 23, 2025, 3:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Fuck this piece of shit. Iran didn’t want his crusty ass daddy or grandpa, and it doesn’t want him. “I just want a secular democracy” my ass.
jun 23, 2025, 11:57 am • 16 1 • view
Too crazy. Hopefully the Iranians remember his father's brutal regime.
jun 23, 2025, 2:37 pm • 0 0 • view
are you sure you didn't mean "towards" instead of "away from" at the end there?
jun 23, 2025, 8:05 pm • 1 0 • view
lol yeah, nah fuck that, and fuck you Eisenhower for installing that particular murderous dictator in place of a democratically elected government in Iran
jun 23, 2025, 2:17 pm • 2 0 • view
The Shah's Son! Does America need a History lesson? Well America got it's own Corrupt First family!
jun 23, 2025, 12:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh, he's ready! Really? I'm pretty sure the Iranians are looking forward to having such a leader, whose only merit is to be the son of the US puppet dictator who set up one of the world's most violent political police (the Savak).
jun 23, 2025, 11:55 am • 82 2 • view
Great, another U.S. puppet. F off you right wing Sh*t rag.
jun 23, 2025, 12:33 pm • 8 0 • view
I would also like to offer myself up as interim leader of Iran I'm equally qualified
jun 23, 2025, 3:50 pm • 0 0 • view
He should go over there now. Look for a house to buy, do a little campaigning and catch up with old friends.
jun 23, 2025, 4:02 pm • 0 0 • view
That's nice. But, no one gives a fuck. How about we let the Iranian people make that decision?
jun 23, 2025, 12:30 pm • 3 0 • view
I also offer to run Iran. I have actual experience running things and am not just coasting off the momentum of one of the worst rulers in the last 200 years.
jun 24, 2025, 2:02 am • 8 0 • view
LOL
jun 24, 2025, 3:02 am • 0 0 • view
jun 23, 2025, 2:43 pm • 1 0 • view
A US trained fighter pilot.
jun 23, 2025, 11:58 am • 0 0 • view
He seems ideal. But the history is ... meh. In 1982, BBC radio was told about plans for a coup d'état & to install him. The plan had the approval of both the CIA & the Israeli cabinet, but was abandoned when Menachem Begin resigned in 1983. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reza_Pa...
jun 23, 2025, 12:16 pm • 0 0 • view
It does feel like Trump's grasping onto old vintage C.I.A ideas. His outdatedness regarding women, sexuality, war, and clothing taste makes him an unwelcome authority on global dynamics. But as far as potential interims go, this guy does fit the bill. I'd via away from the title of 'King'.
jun 23, 2025, 12:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah... sure... worked SO well the last time we did regime change.🙄
jun 23, 2025, 2:44 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m a descendant of George Washington’s great great great great great aunt…
jun 23, 2025, 9:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Fuck that noise. That guy's dad was no better than what's there now. Why do you think his dad was overthrown in the first place. Because he was a ruthless dictator.
jun 23, 2025, 3:14 pm • 7 0 • view
Honestly, he was probably worse because not only was he extremely oppressive, but he also was impoverishing the nation by de-nationalizing the oil for the benefit of western petroleum companies. Such a regime could never last long.
jun 23, 2025, 5:49 pm • 2 1 • view
Moreover, he physically destroyed any possible political alternative to Islamism by systematically killing his laical and left-wing opponents. The only organised force capable of resisting the regime remained the Shia clergy, which he thought he could control, with the results we can all see.
jun 23, 2025, 11:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Just trying to get the point across without writing a book on the subject. Very well aware of the totallity of that regime and our governments involvement in it. Thank you.
jun 23, 2025, 5:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh, certainly. I was trying to add to your point for anyone else reading, not taking exception to it. I want to make it clear that things aren't equal lest others entertain the idea that it's better it be a US friendly dictator than a local one.
jun 23, 2025, 6:53 pm • 0 0 • view
It´s up to the crazy military people, who have been dragged out of the program of poisoning local schoolgirls, due to the current conflict. How will those rabiates react to a different political leader?
jun 23, 2025, 12:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Western installed monarchy is part of how we got here in the first fucking place Break up america now
jun 23, 2025, 2:36 pm • 24 0 • view
Maybe the CIA can organise some riots !
jun 23, 2025, 2:57 pm • 4 0 • view
Who asked him?
jun 23, 2025, 5:00 pm • 0 0 • view
I hear bashir al assad is also available…
jun 24, 2025, 5:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Why are you promoting this guy? He is the son of the puppet Shah, put in power after the overthrow of an elected Mohammed Mossadeq. Mossadeq, was overthrown by the CIA in 1953. What was his problem? He took control of the oil industry away from UK and US companies.
jun 23, 2025, 2:46 pm • 1 0 • view
Jumping the gun a bit ! Is he a MAGA man by any chance
jun 23, 2025, 12:00 pm • 0 0 • view
LOL
jun 23, 2025, 2:44 pm • 1 0 • view
they could also pick me!
jun 23, 2025, 4:19 pm • 1 0 • view
I was wondering how to spell Chalabi in Farsi.
jun 23, 2025, 2:21 pm • 2 0 • view
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
jun 23, 2025, 2:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Finally, someone who understands American foreign policy.
jun 23, 2025, 2:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Anyone remember Ahmed Chalabi?
jun 23, 2025, 6:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Royals aren’t real
jun 23, 2025, 8:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Islamic Revolution TAS any% WR attempt
jun 23, 2025, 2:18 pm • 1 0 • view
What makes him think Iranians want another fucking dictator
jun 23, 2025, 8:44 pm • 6 0 • view
Hey, in the Bible, read Ezekiel 38 😱
jun 23, 2025, 3:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Damn, CIA still has their checkbook to buy former royalty?
jun 23, 2025, 8:27 pm • 0 0 • view
jun 23, 2025, 3:10 pm • 2 0 • view
Jesus fucking Christ.
jun 23, 2025, 2:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Rich guy bribes Trump…installed as puppet leader
jun 23, 2025, 11:53 am • 10 0 • view
Trusting a guy volunteering to be king sounds bad
jun 23, 2025, 1:44 pm • 2 0 • view
Before meddling in other country’s regime change, shouldn’t domestic challenges be addressed first?
jun 23, 2025, 2:13 pm • 1 0 • view
I was in working in Tabriz in the days of the Shah, I saw what was happening, No ,No, No, Iran does not need another Dictator
jun 23, 2025, 11:53 am • 24 0 • view
Molly Shah is *right here* guys! They don’t even have to change any of the stationary.
jun 23, 2025, 5:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Of course he did.
jun 23, 2025, 2:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Didn't his dad basically abolish democracy on behest of America and was then run out of the country due to a popular movement? (I dont think Iranians want his family back)
jun 23, 2025, 1:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Son of the puppet "Shah" of Iran empowered by the US and UK after those nations helped depose the elected Prime Minister of Iran (Mohammad Mosaddegh). What could *possibly* go wrong?
jun 23, 2025, 12:15 pm • 9 0 • view
Those weren't the good old days
jun 23, 2025, 11:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh good. Another torturer
jun 23, 2025, 12:29 pm • 3 0 • view
Installing a puppet
jun 23, 2025, 12:11 pm • 3 0 • view
Please fire [name redacted] so I can just freely call you a nazi newspaper, what is this shit.
jun 23, 2025, 4:14 pm • 0 0 • view
There will be no democracy then...
jun 23, 2025, 12:12 pm • 0 0 • view
He's a puppet of US imperialism.
jun 23, 2025, 3:00 pm • 2 0 • view
Genius idea. Genius.
jun 23, 2025, 2:39 pm • 0 0 • view
some stupid dipshit son of the US installed puppet dictatorship has a idiot opinion. why is this news?
jun 23, 2025, 2:13 pm • 2 0 • view
I’m ready too and have just as much claim as him
jun 23, 2025, 2:56 pm • 25 0 • view
Tbh if there was an election I reckon you'd be more likely to win
jun 23, 2025, 4:20 pm • 3 0 • view
was Juan Guaido not available?
jun 23, 2025, 2:17 pm • 42 4 • view
lmfao who gives a shit not even worth clicking this article, let alone writing it
jun 23, 2025, 4:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Reza Pahlavi may be sincere in his advocacy of democracy, but he is not an appropriate person to lead a democratic, secular Iran, even temporarily. His background makes it difficult for him to understand how democratic institutions work; i.e., you do not "offer" yourself as a leader.
jun 23, 2025, 2:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Of course people have to offer themselves as leaders. It is called candidacy. Pahlavi happens to be the best candidate.
jun 23, 2025, 4:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Why is the son of the former dictator the best candidate?
jun 23, 2025, 4:24 pm • 0 0 • view
His job was the Shah, not a dictator, and his son has been brought to ideally lead the country which his family successfully led since 1925.
jun 23, 2025, 4:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Except for when they had to coup Mosaddegh. Totally not a dictator thing to do. And his father's abusive leadership lead to the Islamic revolution. Very successful.
jun 23, 2025, 4:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh please. Mossadegh stole the oil assets from the British and Americans in 1951 so they naturally worked on his removal which succeeded in 1953. Only bolshevik thieves could stand on Mossadegh's side
jun 23, 2025, 4:48 pm • 0 0 • view
The Islamic Revolution was a coup no different from the occupation of extra territories by the ISIS etc. Tons of people supported these terrorists but all of them are just on the evil side
jun 23, 2025, 4:49 pm • 0 0 • view
So some coups are ok, and dictators are only dictators if they choose that title. Got it.
jun 23, 2025, 4:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Of course some coups are ok. We usually use better labels, like the Velvet Revolution here. Dictator is a pejorative label for an absolute ruler who came to the power from nothing. The last Shah and his son today are just standard heirs to a standard royal system
jun 23, 2025, 4:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Put lipstick on a pig all you want, buddy.
jun 23, 2025, 4:59 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s democracy when America installs the dictator 👍
jun 23, 2025, 2:16 pm • 7 0 • view
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jun 24, 2025, 3:28 am • 0 0 • view
His family helped cause this disaster, he’s pretty deluded
jun 23, 2025, 11:08 pm • 4 0 • view
Isn't that how we got the present regime in Iran, supporting a cruel dictatorship that abused its own people and was friendly to the US. That worked out pretty well!
jun 23, 2025, 2:42 pm • 2 0 • view
No legitimate claim unless there are external forces to make it happen
jun 24, 2025, 4:20 am • 0 0 • view
Are you ficking kidding? That went so well the first time…
jun 23, 2025, 7:19 pm • 1 0 • view
What could possibly go wrong?
jun 24, 2025, 4:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Tanned, rested and ready!
jun 23, 2025, 2:25 pm • 0 0 • view
He can shove that notion right up his arse.
jun 23, 2025, 2:24 pm • 0 0 • view
"Donald Trump Jr. offers himself up as interim leader to take over running the country as it transitions away from dictatorship"
jun 23, 2025, 3:03 pm • 4 0 • view
Hey, if Andrew Cuomo can run a city he hasn't lived in in 30 years...
jun 23, 2025, 3:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Go fuck yourself.
jun 24, 2025, 12:59 am • 0 0 • view
The rightful leader
jun 23, 2025, 2:16 pm • 0 0 • view
I’ve been reading about how they actually had a democracy for a while until 1953, until Operation Ajax. Apparently, the US helped the UK overthrow the Elected prime minister in Iran because of British oil interest and the spread of communism. We helped make Iran a mess.
jun 23, 2025, 12:08 pm • 21 0 • view
Mosadegh( spelling Is meh) took back the sovereignty of the country's oil resources by nationalizing it. Beforehand, the British laid claim to all of it. British petroleum freaking sucks.
jun 23, 2025, 6:05 pm • 2 0 • view
That’s right, they did, I was reading about that too, thank you for mentioning that.
jun 23, 2025, 6:27 pm • 1 0 • view
So they can trade one dictator for another?
jun 23, 2025, 12:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Who did not see that coming? Did he give Trump a plane? Or offer prime property for for a Trump motel?
jun 23, 2025, 12:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Maybe America will make me president of Iran
jun 23, 2025, 4:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Sure he has. The Iranians will welcome him with open arms, no doubt. I mean, his father was much beloved, and not at all a blood-thirst tyrant.
jun 23, 2025, 11:36 pm • 0 0 • view
It would be almost impossible to overstate how stupid this idea is.
jun 23, 2025, 5:42 pm • 13 0 • view
Which is why this is the most likely outcome
jun 23, 2025, 8:08 pm • 3 0 • view