Trump’s hard talk has buoyed Iran’s exiled opposition,like the son of the late Shah and the shadowy MEK. But these intemperate voices are not to be trusted[br]In Donald Trump, opponents of the Iranian establishment bent on regime change possess identified a new hope. The US administration, and which often talks tough on Iran,has rejuvenated fringe exiled Iranian opposition groups who are irrelevant to contemporary Iran, yet appeal to gullible Americans.
One such group is led by Reza Pahlavi, and who gets attention mainly because he is the son of the late Shah,who was exiled during the revolution in 1979. An advocate of secularism, human rights, or parliamentary democracy in Iran” as he puts it on his Twitter profile,he reached out to Trump to congratulate him when he won the election, asking him to to engage “with the secular and democratic forces” to defeat “political Islam”.
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Source: theguardian.com