/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

any Iranians here? just discovered that the Pahlavi dynasty isn't dead, they still have one more crown prince, reza pahlavi the Second, I was reading about him (not from fedpedia god forbid) out of curiosity and tell me, is this a fucking joke? The guy's indistinguishable from the average Tory politician or liberal midwestern millionaire. americans keep using the word "privileged" a lot lately, but if there's a man that can be described with this word, it's him

>when born, his father pardoned political prisoners, all of whom were re-imprisoned years later, such is life when you're a communist in the Middle East
>obtained a plane license at the age of 13
>was sent to Texas to keep studying/training on flying military supersonic jets and economical jets with the USAAF, drove a fuckton of them before being forced to leave during the revolution
>dropped out of two different high-end private universities before pursuing a degree in "oil industries" (sus) and political science in California
>Right now owns many penthouses in Texas, Paris, I could go on but the important part is that he officially lives in a mountain real estate in Great Falls, Fairfax Virginia. (conveniently not too far from Washington DC, only 12 miles away from the white house and 6 miles away from the George Bush Center for Intelligence, CIA headquarter) place is guarded by fences and bodyguards and forbidden to drones, it isn't even shown on Google Maps.
>said to regularly refer to his house's bodyguards as imperial guards and urges his interviewers to refer to him as "your Majesty"
>urged Le monde to write more articles about the 2017 Iranian protests in Persian, and urged the British and Americans to act against the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for their seizure of "international ships"
>may or may not be the one behind funding English documentaries about Iran under the pahlavis,
>is a fucking NEET, was unemployed his whole life, still unemployed now, when asked about his current job he says it's "to speak about the issues of the Iranian people 24/7, when asked about the way he makes money, he says it's from the donations of his supporters.
>met in april 2023 with Bibi of Israel, and the Israeli intelligence minister at the west wall and then at Bibi's home to discuss the ties between a "future democracy in Iran and the democracy of Israel, and to strengthen the ties between the Jewish people and the free Iranian people, coexisting in their native homelands"
>spent his 70s and 80s like a dream, resting in ski resorts in Japan and South Korea, dining in the finest French and New York establishments, safaris in Africa, disco techs in Egypt and having an affair with a, wait, hold on, let me re-read this part for you, "One of the prince’s favorite dates at the moment, however, is a blond, blue-eyed Swedish model he met in Rome."
>regularly travels around Europe and North America gathering financial and verbal support from Iranian expatriates, other pro-monarchy groups, Bloomberg, Reuters, the ADL, Radio Farda (the Iranian version of Radio Free Europe, for god's sake it's also in Prague like Radio Free Europe) and the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
>In 1982 he conspired with an Israeli businessman, another Israeli businessman, the founder of an Israeli aerospace company, Sharon and a Saudi arms dealer (uncle of the 2018 Saudi journalist who got butchered in Turkey), and the CIA and the British airforce to aid him in a coup against the mullah to reinstate him as shah of Iran, it never happened because Israel was at loss for reputation after Sabra and Shatila and didn't want any "further adventures in the east"
>you can still find his website online, but it looks like he's trying to sell you a book rather than inform you he's the king of iran

to top it all off, he is contradictory, on one hand, he does say he wants Iran to be, in his words, a liberal, free, democratic, secular, westernized nation with human rights and internet access for all, but in those same conversations, he also always implies at the end that if the Iranian people would want his family back on the peacock throne as their shah of a modernized constitutional monarchy, he wouldn't reject their wish. and did receive a petition from Iranian diasporas for him to start a "government in exile" with him as king