A Prince of Unholy Alliances

A Prince Pays A Go to
…providing the attentive observer a touch of unholy alliances

So now Berlin. The energetic head of the internationally networked household enterprise that goals to carry Iran again underneath the crown’s thumb, the „Sha’s Son“ Reza Pahlavi, visits the capital of the Federal Republic of Germany and is fast to criticise the German authorities for not doing extra to carry him to the throne – pardon me – to carry the Iranians their freedom. He calls the German
authorities’s alleged hesitation a “shame”:

Stefan H. Heuer, M.A.
April 24, 2026

”Reza Pahlavi requires regime change in Iran on Berlin go to: The previous Shah’s son is in Germany to drum up assist for his international marketing campaign to overthrow Iran’s management. Throughout a speech within the capital, he referred to as the German authorities’s refusal to satisfy with him “a shame.”

That is typical of him: the person is of retirement age and nonetheless desires to rule – supposedly solely to steer a “transitional authorities” in Iran.

Properly, we’re already aware of such transitional presidents, blessed by the West, aren’t we? In Syria, the head-chopper Al-Jolani has been imposing on the Syrian individuals the transition from a secular nation to a Salafist torture chamber since December 2024. In Kiev, the comic Zelensky, since Could 2024, has been allowed to usurp the workplace of Ukrainian president with out an electoral mandate, each of them with out being reprimanded by the representatives of the EU or the US, who’re at all times speaking about so-called ‘Western values’. Onerous-line dictators akin to Reza Pahlavi’s father, Jolani, or Zelensky are at all times expensive to the West, supplied they’re in its pocket.

Ever since, in 1953, the US and Britain had orchestrated their coup in opposition to the democratically elected Iranian prime minister Mossadegh, returning the nationalised oil manufacturing into the loyal arms of the British-Dutch and US exploiters, and reinstating the Shah as a puppet of the Western oil corporations, the ties between the US and the royal household have been shut.

Mossadegh was a patriot who wished to carry freedom and prosperity to his individuals – that was his
mistake. The CIA stepped in and handled the issue

Mossadegh’s achievements for Iran shouldn’t be underestimated:

“At a time when politics in Iran was dominated by the monarchy, the clergy and navy pursuits, Mossadegh supplied a daring imaginative and prescient of governance primarily based on constitutionalism, the rule of regulation and the desire of the individuals. Though his tenure as Prime Minister was short-lived, it marked a outstanding departure from the prevailing authoritarian order. By means of political measures such because the nationalisation of the Iranian oil business, Mossadegh reaffirmed not solely financial independence but additionally the elemental proper of countries to self-determination.”

Such acts of defiance can’t be tolerated when the provision of sources to the grasping capitalist monsters within the West is at stake. On this respect, the coup of 1953 is above all placing proof that democracy primarily based on the Western mannequin will not be accepted by the West if it hinders its just about free entry to the sources of different nations.

The Shah, the subservient puppet of Western oil corporations, was thus restored to the throne in Tehran and dominated from then on, from 1953 till his overthrow and flight into exile in 1979, with an iron fist; he made the individuals, whom he didn’t care about, pay for the truth that he had been compelled to go away the nation in the course of the transient interval of freedom that they had received for themselves:

“In response to a 1976 report by Amnesty Worldwide, the shah’s feared intelligence company (SAVAK) typically beat political prisoners with electrical cables, sodomised them and ripped off their fingernails and toenails to extract false confessions.’On the finish of the day, the shah’s regime was a brutal dictatorship and non-democracy […]”

The oil floated in another country, the funds floated into the Shah’s pockets, while the oppressed individuals grew poorer.

Exploitation and subjugation underneath overseas rulers – that’s what the second Pahlavi stands for. The third appears to wish to observe in his footsteps, and his associates seem like the identical as his father’s:
”His household had a relationship with the CIA that went again to the coup in 1953 […]. In 2006, U.S. Pres. George W. Bush’s administration created the Iran Democracy Fund, pledging $75 million for assist to Iranian opposition teams and propaganda directed in opposition to the federal government.“

It isn’t solely from the US that he hopes for his enthronement. He additionally maintains the closest of relations with the terrorist state of Israel, which is committing genocide in opposition to the Palestinians in addition to the inhabitants of Lebanon to drive via ‘Larger Israel’ – a state during which Christians and Muslims are harassed, if not pushed out outright, and their locations of worship destroyed. In doing so, he likes to discuss with the shut ties his father had maintained with the blood-soaked butchers in Tel Aviv, which he want to renew in the end:

“Yasmine and I have been very happy to satisfy with Israeli PM and Sara (Netanyahu).
We expressed appreciation for Israel’s continued assist for the Iranian individuals’s democratic aspirations and emphasised that, as the kids of Cyrus the Nice, Iranians aspire to have a authorities that honours his legacy of tolerance for various faiths and safety of human rights. The day will quickly come when the Iranian nation and Israel get pleasure from regular relations and mutually enriching and useful cultural, scientific and financial alternate.” (X submit)

On the event of his first go to to his associates in 2023, Reza Pahlavi wrote that he wished to “convey a message of friendship from the Iranian individuals”

The truth that the Iranian individuals had not authorised the self-made man from the US in any respect didn’t hassle anybody within the West, given the attractive photographs and heat phrases. And simply two years later, the Iranians have been proven what “Israel’s continued assist for the Iranian individuals’s democratic aspirations ” means: homicide, terror, annihilation.

When Israel and the US attacked Iran, the prince was completely thrilled. He described the killing of Iranian civilians and the destruction of infrastructure as a “humanitarian intervention” and praised the aggressor:

“Trump will probably be remembered because the chief who stood with [the Iranian people] when it mattered most”

“Humanitarian interventions” by the West have a particular historical past. Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria,
Mali, Libya, Somalia and Sudan are names that come to thoughts on this context. After the homicide of tons of of 1000’s, if not hundreds of thousands, within the unlucky nations on the dying checklist of the evil empire, Iran is, as is well-known, on the backside of the checklist.

“We’re going to take out seven nations in 5 years, beginning with Iraq, after which Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, ending off, Iran.”

That that is at all times in regards to the tangible geostrategic pursuits of the Western hegemon and its starvation for sources can not critically be disputed.

Pahlavi, who tirelessly campaigns for violent regime change, helps the assaults in opposition to the nation he describes as his homeland, and in opposition to the individuals whom he has the audacity to say to symbolize.

He referred to the Iranian schoolchildren torn to shreds by the US in Minab as ‘collateral injury’.

That is precisely how NATO describes its civilian casualties.

That is the form of strong ethical digestion that the West loves. For these figures, painstakingly polished by the media, dutifully parrot the script, whatever the heavy toll in blood that the individuals supposedly to be liberated should pay. For these parrots with ambitions of energy, it’s value kissing the ft of the mass murderers in Washington and Tel Aviv.

Mr Pahlavi, the self-appointed chief of the Iranian opposition, actually additionally shone in Berlin with phrases that sounded good to Western ears:

“Noteworthy was Pahlavi’s outlined financial ‘imaginative and prescient’ for a secular transitional authorities, which he intends to steer. A ‘free’ Iran would change into a ‘companion for regional financial integration’, he stated. Iran’s ‘vitality potential’ would as soon as once more be ‘linked to international markets’. The oil reserves would thus ‘profit European shoppers, neighbours within the Persian Gulf and the Iranian individuals in equal measure’. Pahlavi spoke of the ‘biggest untapped alternative for regional peace in a era’ and of ‘financial alternatives value greater than a trillion {dollars} over the approaching decade’.

Certainly it’s only a coincidence that this sounds very very like Trump’s property improvement undertaking for Gaza.

While there, the troublesome indigenous inhabitants is first being pushed out or murdered earlier than the golden age can daybreak, Iran – economically strangled by sanctions – would, in line with the moist desires of Western imperialists, fall into their predatory arms like a ripe apple: a extremely developed nation with monumental vitality sources.

The street to Tehran is presently being paved, and the busy Mr Pahlavi already has a plan for the adjustments desired by the West.

The ‘prosperity’ he guarantees therein will, because the Western-led upheavals in West Asia and Africa thus far, accrue much less to the individuals than to the puppet-masters within the West.

The abnormal Western man on the street, affected by hovering dwelling prices, as an alternative hears that, with Pahlavi, oil is lastly flowing into Western petrol stations as soon as extra. That will probably be cause sufficient for him to rubber-stamp the deliberate brutal subjugation of a extremely civilised individuals to the exploitative overseas rule of the Western plutocracies. He’s glad to pay taxes for that.

And the EU, too, seems set to debate at its summit in Cyprus as we speak the way to cope with Iran, which dares to defy authority, to advance its personal imperial pursuits.

To make the unlawful regime change, which is barely attainable via navy coercion, seem in some way good, or ‘democratic’ so to talk, a charismatic determine is required for the (notoriously ill-informed and even much less ) majority within the West, who will finally foot the invoice for these measures. Atypical individuals don’t learn technique papers. And it’s exactly for this function that the ‘terror West’ wants a figurehead whom it may well gown up and current in line with tactical concerns. It appears attainable that Mr Pahlavi is being ready for this position. In doing so, the West overlooks the truth that this gentleman performs a seemingly doubtful position inside the opposition actions of the Iranian exiles:

„Pahlavi’s motion morphed into one thing a lot darker and extra harmful through the years, particularly after he successfully dropped out of a coalition fashioned by eight outstanding Iranian opposition members at Georgetown College in 2023 and declared himself the only real chief of the Iranian opposition. […] To know how extremist and more and more violent the Pahlavist motion has change into, look no additional than the current homicide of Canadian-Iranian democracy activist Masood Masjoody in British Columbia.“

The homicide was reported by Canadian media, which the Germans, nonetheless, don’t learn. That’s the reason they’re utterly unaware of the determine that the media glosses over for him, as instructed.

Throughout the opposition actions, Reza Pahlavi is subsequently controversial, however that doesn’t hassle the West if it may well current the taxpaying public with a figurehead. In spite of everything, he’s the ‘solely face of the opposition that folks know’.

He’s not but appropriate for a gathering with the representatives of the plutocracy in Berlin, however that might change. In spite of everything, Berlin has some expertise in propelling puppets to prominence.

And when Iranian oil lastly sloshes about within the tanks of Western automobiles, we, the golden billion of the West, will forgive the Iranians for the truth that we attacked them, bombed their faculties, murdered their youngsters and eventually compelled them underneath the rule of a Mr Pahlavi.

As a result of, aren’t we at all times the great guys?

Stefan H. Heuer, M.A.
Historian, born in 1964, has labored as a lecturer in grownup training and, amongst others, in Human sources improvement for a US-American firm in Germany.

English translation of the German article „Ein Prinz gibt sich die Ehre“ (2026-4-24), revealed on the creator’s Substack website.

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