Although he insisted that he was “not interested in power or a position”, he said that he would play a acting leader to establish a new democratic constitution. “I am not here to present myself in the elections, but I have an essential role to play as a person that people call because they trust me,” he said. “Today’s generation considers this as an element that could be a broker, an agent of change, a transition leader who can call well above political divisions to a feeling of national unity.”
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Pahlavi still arouses skepticism among Iranians, even if he promises to act only as a facilitator of the change, who will then retire after having sought to unite the very fragmented opposition camps of the country.
While monarchist songs and symbols arose during demonstrations in Iran, other pro-democracy demonstrators have adopted the slogan that they want “neither a shah nor a (supreme) leader”. The memories of the elites outside the Shah era and its Savak Redoute secret police are deep.
Basically, it is not clear if one of Iran’s oppositions abroad can prove to be a force majeure to overthrow the regime, or if greater changes would be more likely to come from rivalries and fractures within the current state apparatus.
Indeed, according to Sanam Vakil at the Think Tank of Chatham House in London, there are big questions about the question of whether the Iranian people are also close to avoiding the regime as Pahlavi suggests. She maintains that even if they are, he should not be considered the inevitable temporary interim leader.
“His father was ousted for all kinds of reasons. Why are we going to put our money on the son who has literally did nothing in the 46 years since he left Iran? ” She said. “It is important to support the Iranian agency. There are so many courageous visionaries inside the country and inside the prison of Evin which are highly qualified but treated in a abhaly republic – many winners of the Nobel Prize, many human rights defenders. We have to put money there. “
For his part, Pahlavi insists that he wants a new constitution with three pillars at the base: preserving the territorial integrity of Iran; Create a secular democracy separating the religion of the government; And consecrate “all the principles of human rights”, including protection against discrimination for the reasons for sexuality, religion or ethnic origin.
As soon as a referendum is kept to ratify these new arrangements, he said, he would take a step back. “This is the end of my mission in life.”
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