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In an exclusive interview with Reuters from the White House, US President Donald Trump said that Reza Pahlavi, the last son of the Shah of Iran, "seems to be a very good man", but questioned his ability to gain real support within Iran.
"He seems very nice, but I don't know how he would be received in his own country. We haven't gotten to that point yet. If the Iranian people accept his leadership, that would be fine with me, but that's a matter for them," Trump said.
It is a more cautious statement from Trump, who had previously threatened to support anti-regime protesters in Iran but has now shown reluctance to take a clear pro-monarchist stance. Reza Pahlavi, now 65, has lived outside Iran since before the 1979 Islamic revolution, when the ayatollah regime overthrew the monarchy.
Trump did not rule out the possibility of the fall of the clerical regime in Tehran, but added that "any regime can fall. Whether it happens or not remains to be seen, but it will be an interesting period."
Although Pahlavi has become a strong voice of the Iranian diaspora and has support in certain Western circles, the Iranian opposition is divided among various groups, secular republicans, reformist Islamists, and monarchists, without a unified structure or effective presence on the ground inside Iran.
This division makes it difficult to create a serious political alternative in the event of the sudden collapse of the current regime, and for this reason Trump avoids taking sides decisively.
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