Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi denounced the upcoming US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding, calling it “morally wrong and strategically misguided,” in a Tuesday X/Twitter post.
“As it signs a Memorandum of Understanding for ‘peace,’ the Islamic Republic just executed two more protesters from January 8 and 9. This is the consequence of making a deal with this criminal regime,” Pahlavi wrote.
“To do a deal with a regime that murdered more than 40,000 protestors in two days in January is morally wrong and strategically misguided,” he continued.
As it signs a Memorandum of Understanding for “peace”, the Islamic Republic just executed two more protesters from January 8th and 9th.
This is the consequence of making a deal with this criminal regime. To do a deal with a regime that murdered more than 40,000 protestors in two…
— Reza Pahlavi (@PahlaviReza) June 16, 2026
“Dealing with this regime will fail, and we will all face the consequences. The regime’s 47-year war against the Iranian people continues,” he added.
“Just as it has never made peace with its own citizens, it will never truly make peace with the world. The international community should back the people of Iran’s fight for freedom… But let me be clear – with or without international support – this regime will fail. The people of Iran will liberate themselves from tyranny,” he concluded.
This morning, I met with @EmilyThornberry Chair of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, and other members of the Committee to discuss the situation inside Iran, the Islamic Republic’s repression of the Iranian people, and the urgent need to place the people of Iran at… pic.twitter.com/DaUIDcUWb9
— Reza Pahlavi (@PahlaviReza) June 16, 2026
Later on Tuesday, Pahlavi met with MP Emily Thornberry (Labour), the chair of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, as well as other committee members in London, to discuss the situation inside Iran, the regime’s “repression of the Iranian people, and the urgent need to place the people of Iran at the center of UK policy.”
Pahlavi repeated his “morally wrong and strategically misguided” statement to Thornberry and the other committee members.
Pahlavi: ‘Iran agreement that preserves regime, remnants, will fail, lack support from Iranian people’
“Any agreement that preserves this regime or its remnants will fail. The Iranian people will not support it,” he added.
“With or without international support, the people of Iran will overthrow this regime. Freedom will come to Iran,” he concluded.
