The following message was posted on Monday, 12 January 2026 at about 0600 Mountain Time. This commentary follows up on yesterday’s. Iran and the people of the nation are in our prayers and we seek ways to encourage them.

Rezi Pahlevi is the “Crown Prince” of the former Imperial House of Iran (or Persia), the son of the overthrown Shah (Emperor) of Iran. His family claims to be the latest in a series of dynasties which we are told have ruled Persia for about 3,000 years, overthrown and replaced by the Iranian Islamic Republic in 1979, 47 years ago.

Do the people of Iran, and others, believe this? Should they? Our own position is clear.

Beloved people of Iran, my courageous compatriots,

Over the past two weeks—especially in the last four days—you have shaken the foundations of the illegitimate Islamic Republic through massive, nationwide demonstrations. Now, relying on your overwhelming response to the recent calls, and with the public mandate I have received from you, I am announcing a new phase of the national uprising to overthrow the Islamic Republic and reclaim our beloved Iran.

1. Inside Iran: In addition to taking and holding the central streets of our cities, all institutions and apparatuses responsible for the regime’s propaganda and for cutting communications are to be regarded as legitimate targets. Employees of state institutions, as well as members of the armed and security forces, have a choice: stand with the people and become allies of the nation, or choose complicity with the murderers of the people—and bear the nation’s lasting shame and condemnation.

2. Outside Iran: All Iranian embassies and consulates belong to the Iranian people. The time has come for them to be adorned with Iran’s national flag, in place of the disgraceful banner of the Islamic Republic.

We stand on the threshold of reclaiming our beloved Iran from the Islamic Republic. Khamenei and his regime have already suffered several heavy blows at your hands, and we must not allow them a moment to recover. The regime faces a severe shortage of forces of repression; the increase in gunfire against the people is not a sign of strength, but of fear—fear of collapse and an accelerated downfall. We will not allow these criminals to spill any more of our young people’s blood. We will not give them that chance. We will not retreat.

Iran’s freedom is near. The blood shed by Iran’s immortal sons and daughters guides our path to toward victory. We are not alone. International support will soon arrive. Standby for my next messages. Very soon, we will reclaim our beloved Iran back from the Islamic Republic, and celebrations of freedom and victory will fill every corner of our country. 

Sure sounds good, doesn’t he?

We know little or nothing about this guy. We know a little more about his father, who was (or so we understand from various sources) put on the throne twice by American and British efforts. First to replace his father in WW2, and again in 1954 when he replaced what was considered a “democratically-elected” prime minister and parliament who had driven him into exile. It is stated that he became increasing authoritarian and hated by his people, but in particular, through Muslim himself, hated by the Shi’a clerical party who opposed his modernization and his relationship with Israel. This led to the 1979 Revolution in which he was overthrown.

Since then, the Ayatollah’s have headed up a regime which many describe as Islamofascist, and certainly is very hard-core Islamist and a strict enforcement of Sharia law.

Today, many Iranians, at home and abroad, seem to have pinned their hopes on a restoration of the dynasty and on Rezi Pahlevi to establish a constitutional monarchy that supports individual liberty and can restore the economy and society of the nation.

We point out that the Preacher’s (Solomon’s) warning about “Put not your trust in princes” (or human leaders in general) is very applicable to this.