While we await news from the talks taking place between the US and Iran in Geneva today, let’s look at reaction to what’s happening on the ground in Iran.
The son of the country’s last shah called Sunday for “humanitarian intervention” by the US following a brutal crackdown on protests against the regime, as President Donald Trump considers military strikes on the country.
Reza Pahlavi said the Iranian people want “freedom,” and he urged the world to increase pressure on the regime. He spoke a day after addressing a mass demonstration in Germany, where he was attending the Munich Security Conference.
“As we speak, there are people that are being executed in Iran. There are people that are being arrested and tortured,” Pahlavi told Fox News in an interview.
At least 6,490 protesters have been killed in Iran since mass demonstrations erupted in late December, the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported as of last Wednesday. CNN cannot independently verify HRANA’s figures.
“What’s happening, this is really on a scale (that is) unimaginable,” said Pahlavi.
Pahlavi, who is based in the US, has sought to position himself as a de facto leader of the protesters who staged the most potent challenge to the Islamic Republic in years. Some chanted his name and held signs bearing his image.
