‘Iran mourns the 40,000 killed by Khamenei, not him’: Exiled crown prince calls funeral ‘propaganda’
Iran’s exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi said the country “does not mourn” the death of supreme leader Ali Khamenei, calling the week-long funeral a “propaganda show” funded by the wealth of the Iranian people.In a series of posts onHe said the regime had spent vast amounts of the Iranian people’s wealth on hosting the funeral, noting that “not a single leader from a democratic country deigned to attend.”Pahlavi added in a follow-up post: “What you see today is not a country mourning its rulers; rather, it is a country filled with righteous rage, and it is this rage and heroic courage that will overthrow the remnants of this criminal regime.”
Pahlavi’s longstanding opposition islamic republic
Pahlavi, the eldest son of Iran’s last king, has been a prominent dissident in exile since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. During the 2026 Iran War, he described U.S. and Israeli attacks as “humanitarian intervention” that targeted the Islamic Republic’s “repressive apparatus” rather than the Iranian people.He urged Trump to proceed with caution and protect civilian lives, saying “the Iranian people are your natural allies.” Pahlavi also called for large public rallies in solidarity with the protest movement and outlined a vision for a post-regime Iran at the 2026 CPAC conference.
