{"id":321925,"date":"2026-01-21T08:40:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T08:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=321925"},"modified":"2026-01-23T07:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T07:33:13","slug":"son-of-irans-deposed-shah-urges-us-israel-to-wage-all-out-war-on-country-after-failed-regime-change-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=321925","title":{"rendered":"Son of Iran\u2019s deposed Shah urges US, Israel to wage all-out war on country after failed \u2018regime change\u2019 plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Reza Pahlavi, the son of Iran\u2019s overthrown US-backed monarch, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Press TV \u2013 Jan 20, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Reza Pahlavi, the son of Iran\u2019s deposed Shah, has once again openly appealed to the United States and Israel to launch an all-out war against his own country, following the nation\u2019s thwarting of a US-Israeli plot aimed at \u201cregime change.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Fox News, Pahlavi, the son of Iran\u2019s US-backed monarch who fled the country after his father\u2019s dictatorship was overthrown in the 1979 Islamic Revolution, publicly called for military strikes against Iran, saying he does not care whether such action is carried out by the United States, Israel, or another actor.<\/p>\n<p>Pleading for foreign aggression, he claimed that a single \u201cdefinitive strike\u201d could \u201ccompletely reverse the odds\u201d and help bring down the current Iranian government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt could be an American strike. It could be an Israeli strike. It could be whatever,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Pahlavi went further, claiming that to fully defeat the Iranian state, any military campaign would need to target the country\u2019s entire military and security institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The Fox News anchor interviewing him responded by noting that such a campaign \u201ccould be a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In June last year, Israel and the United States failed to conquer Iran despite hundreds of attacks against the country during a 12-day war. Iran showed its will and ability to strike back as hundreds of Iranian missiles and drones pounded targets in occupied territories, and also a major US base in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>Pahlavi\u2019s remarks come after merchants in Iran organized peaceful demonstrations in Tehran to protest sharp fluctuations in the national currency, the rial. Seizing the moment, Pahlavi sought to exploit the situation by calling on Mossad- and CIA-linked sleeper cells inside Iran to incite riots and hijack what had begun as peaceful protests.<\/p>\n<p>Not long before, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that Israel was running a covert influence operation using fake accounts and AI-generated content to promote Pahlavi and advocate for the restoration of the monarchy in Iran, underscoring the depth of this alliance.<\/p>\n<p>The ties between Pahlavi and Israel were further solidified after the Tel Aviv regime launched the unprovoked 12-day aggression, which claimed the lives of more than 1,000 people, including women and children.<\/p>\n<p>While the Iranian nation mourned its martyrs, Pahlavi monarchists openly celebrated. Reza Pahlavi offered no words of sympathy for the victims of the 12-day war, laying bare where his loyalties truly lie.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2026\/01\/20\/762605\/Reza-Pahlavi-calls-for-military-strikes-on-Iran,-says-he-doesn%E2%80%99t-care-who-bombs-it\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the increasingly unlikely event that the U.S. and Israel manage to pull off regime change in Iran, this is the man they plan to replace the Ayatollah with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":321927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321926,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321925\/revisions\/321926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/321927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}