Exiled Iranian crown prince reveals 6-step plan to exert pressure on Tehran's regime

Exiled Iranian crown prince Reza Pahlavi unveiled Friday a 6-step program to exert unit connected the regime, which helium declared "will fall, not if, but when." 

"My brave compatriots still holding the enactment with their broken bodies but unbreakable will, need your urgent assistance close now. Make nary mistake, however, the Islamic Republic is adjacent to collapse," Pahlavi declared.  

"Ali Khamenei and his thugs cognize this. That's why they are lashing retired similar a wounded animal, desperate to cling to power," helium continued. "The radical person not retreated. Their determination has made 1 happening clear. They are not simply rejecting this regime. They are demanding a credible caller way forward. They have called for maine to lead." 

Pahlavi said helium has a broad program for an orderly modulation and asked the planetary assemblage to bash six things, starting with protecting the Iranian radical "by degrading the regime's repressive capacity, including targeting the Islamic Revolutionary Guard enactment and its command-and-control infrastructure." 

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Exiled Iranian crown prince Reza Pahlavi speaks during a quality league connected Friday, Jan. 16, 2026, successful Washington, D.C.  (Mark Schiefelbein/AP)

"Second, present and prolong maximum economical unit connected the regime, artifact their assets worldwide, people and dismantle their fleet of shade [oil] tankers," helium said. 

"Third, interruption done the regime's accusation blockade by enabling unrestricted net access. Deploy Starlink and different unafraid communications tools wide across Iran and conduct cyber operations to disable the regime's quality to unopen down the internet. Fourth, clasp the authorities accountable by expelling its diplomats from your capitals and pursue legal enforcement actions against those liable for crimes against humanity," Pahlavi continued. 

"Fifth, request the contiguous merchandise of each governmental prisoners. Six, prepare for a antiauthoritarian modulation successful Iran by committing to admit a morganatic transitional government when the infinitesimal comes," helium concluded.

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Iranian demonstrators stitchery successful a thoroughfare during a protestation implicit the illness of the currency's value, successful Tehran, Iran, connected Jan. 8, 2026.  (Stringer/WANA/Reuters)

Pahlavi’s remarks came arsenic President Donald Trump seemed to remain ambivalent astir the anticipation of Pahlavi taking implicit the state if the Islamic authorities were to fall. 

"He seems precise nice, but I don't cognize however he'd play wrong his ain country," Trump told Reuters during an interrogation connected Wednesday. "And we truly aren't up to that constituent yet. 

"I don't cognize whether oregon not his state would judge his leadership, and surely if they would, that would beryllium good with me," helium added. 

When Pahlavi was asked Friday by a newsman astir however helium plans to triumph Trump over, helium said, "President Trump has said that it's up to the Iranian radical to decide, and I wholly agree."

President Donald Trump has yet to springiness exiled Iranian crown prince Reza Pahlavi the greenish airy to pb if the authorities successful Iran falls. (Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images)

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"I've always said it's for the Iranian radical to decide. And I deliberation the Iranian radical person already demonstrated in great numbers who it is that they privation them to pb to this transition," helium added. "So I'm confident that I person the enactment of my compatriot. And arsenic for the planetary leaders to measure the information connected the crushed and spot who is susceptible of doing that. I judge I tin and I have the Iranian people’s support." 

Fox News Digital’s Rachel Wolf contributed to this report.