-- Amil Imani

While the Islamic Republic supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, for his part, has been vocal through his speeches, statements, and practices to find a candidate who would follow and carry on his revolutionary ideals to national leadership, Iranians in exile have not been able to reconcile their differences in order to appoint someone at the helm.

Iran is at a crossroads. The Islamic rulers do not have one iota of sentiment towards Iran and they have just given up what to do with this ancient and civilized nation. Many Iranians around the globe are desperate that they are unable to do anything against the sworn enemies of Iran: the mullahs. So, Iran is on the verge of collapse without any help from the outside. Many opposition groups have done all they could to save Iran from further deterioration and collapse.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has entered its fourth decade, and the values and legacy of the Revolution it was founded upon continue to have profound and contradictory consequences for Iranian life. They have ruled over the defenseless Persian people with iron fists and absolute power. As a result, millions of Iranians were forced to flee their home to the four corners of the globe. 

Over the past 40 years, many of us have seen various Iranian opposition groups and TV channels pop up, one after another, but none united or supported their competitors. Each group had its own agenda. A typical Iranian dilemma: “too many chiefs, not enough Indians.”

Sometimes the Mainstream media appears hysterical and misinformed about the mission of Mr. Pahlavi so they keep making up stories that are not factual. They are mostly fake news.

Why should we support Reza Pahlavi? Because the Iranian people support him. He has the full support of Iranians inside Iran and we must unconditionally respect their will. If we don’t stand with him it would be a colossal mistake. Despite other opposition groups resort to violence, Mr. Pahlavi, repeatedly has stated that “non-violent change is the only way to go.” “Change must come to Iran by civil disobedience and non-violence. I stress that. We can’t have change at any cost.”

Some 2,500 years ago, a farsighted and benevolent king, Cyrus the Great, issued an historic proclamation to the varied peoples of his vast empire. He granted every people their rights to dignity, independence, beliefs and their way of life. This trailblazing king, considered as the first author of the Charter of Human Rights, showed the justice as well as the feasibility of diverse peoples living peacefully with one another to the benefit of all.

Close to 40 years after the establishment of the Islamic Republic, the people cries for the Reza Pahlavi. That is a fact. The rest is history. This is not fiction. This is reality as we all have witnessed in recent protests in Iran that people have been shouting for him to come back and save them from the brutal Islamic regime.

Iranian Oppositions

Over the past 39 years, I have witnessed Iranian opposition groups and Iranian TV channels in Los Angeles keep popping up, one after another, but none united. Each group had its own agenda, yet, the common denominator between all of them was “regime change.” Knowing the Iranian mentality and a decided lack of team work, I knew they could not possibly stand a chance against the powerful Islamic regime that possesses a capability of monitoring the Iranian population locally and globally in order to ensure and comply with regime mandates.