Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi just said the quiet part on Fox: the Islamic Republic is not negotiating. It is trying to outlast Trump.
That is the whole strategy. Buy time. Look steely-faced at the UN. Talk Hormuz. Hope the next administration is gullible enough to treat the butchers as “legitimate partners” again. He named it. The regime wants to survive this presidency the way it survived every other one.
He also named the price of that illusion. In January they slaughtered tens of thousands in a night to stay alive. Real peace does not exist while that apparatus still holds the guns.
This interview matters because it puts the only serious alternative in the room the White House actually watches. The man with a national following, a transition plan, and a simple ask: stop dealing with the corpse and sit with the country that comes after it.
Reza Pahlavi is the legitimate opposition leader for a reason. He is asking it to stop rehabilitating the regime that chants death to America and then begs America for a ceasefire. He is offering what Washington says it wants: an Iran that is a partner in a future, not a hostage-taker with a flag.
Trump’s frame at the UN was deal or annihilation. There is a third option, and it is the only one that ends the war instead of pausing it. Meet the Crown Prince. Treat the Iranian nation as the counterpart. Cut the regime out of the conversation it has no moral right to be in.
The Islamic Republic mouthpieces are in New York to live another year. Pahlavi is on American television to end the Islamic Republic for good. Those are not the same project. Only one of them should get the meeting.
#KingRezaPahlaviForIran
Massachusetts just ordered cops to stop asking if you’re here illegally.
Then ICE scooped a Jamaican illegal alien in Springfield facing seven child-rape counts.
Jermaine Oneil Thompson. Pending: two counts of aggravated rape of a child. Prior arrest: five counts of rape of a child with force, assault with intent to rape a child, and witness intimidation. He’s in federal immigration custody now. The criminal case moves separately.
Governor Maura Healey’s PROTECT Act locked in September 4. It tells state and local police they can’t ask about immigration status unless it’s an element of a state crime. It also blocks civil ICE arrests without a judicial warrant in schools, courthouses, and hospitals. She rolled out the guidance the same week her sanctuary blueprint collided with this arrest.
ICE Boston didn’t whisper. They said Healey is protecting vile, dangerous criminal aliens.
Cable news treated it like weather in Springfield. A state that handcuffs its own cops on immigration questions while predators walk free is not “protecting communities.” It’s choosing a side. Enforce the border or admit the kids aren’t the priority.
@RJLDilkie@DocPriyamMD Ignorance I’m a Christian and I don’t think people should suffer and that is not even a biblical teaching. Jesus suffered and paid our debt once and for all.
@johnfgately Incompetent governor, lieutenant governor, Attorney General senators, and most representatives totally disgusting Massachusetts, and I watched the whole trial. The one man who stood up for what was right had so much courage now we’ll see what happens. Midterms vote red.