As expected, overall CPAC 2026 has been a big dud with more than half of the events sparsely attended, and more empty seats than audience members. CPAC has been rejected by the majority of the pragmatic MAGA base, leaving only a shallow lineup of regretful podcast voices showcasing their diminished influence. It’s a hot mess.
That said, a large gathering of organized Persians and Texas evangelicals who support Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi as the outside opposition leader to Iran showed up for his keynote address. While many in the audience likely had never heard of Pahlavi prior to today, they know they do not support the religious zealots who are being confronted by President Trump.
President Trump and Secretary Marco Rubio have kept the Pahlavi crowd at a diplomatic arm’s length as they work through the optimal solutions; however, Prince Reza Pahlavi was well received at CPAC 2026 to deliver his remarks.
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Pahlavi would most likely be better than the lunatic mullahs. An ex USAF major I know who was in the service at the time the mullahs kicked the Shah out told me what he learned about the shiits through intelligence channels. In essence, they are totally crazy and would not hesitate to use a nuke. Remember, we are all infidels and it is a honor to kill all infidels. If they happen to die in the process, I guess they believe in getting their 72 virgins.
What if those 72 virgins are all male? They might be even more willing to die for their reward.
They are 🐐🐐🐐!
prom night
The young boys with buttocks like pearls will serve them from the rivers of wine. The 72 perpetual virgin Houris will also them on the couches in the gardens.
Or goats.
The Gayatollah would be very happy with 72 male virgins. However, recent updated translations indicate that it is not “virgins” but “raisins”.
I have also seen this as the new translation.
Actually, they’re goats!!
Misinterpreted. It’s 72 Virginians (Washington, Jefferson,…etc.).
That’s my favorite interpretation!
it’s been rumored that the United States Marine Corps can arrange the meetings with 72 Virgins…
Devil Dog Dating Service?
Again, very seriously, this started with the average Iranian citizen putting their lives on the line to protest the conditions they were living under…and basically said “Enough”. Too many were tortured and died. Torture is barbaric. As those murders…
Trump offered the Iranian guards and other bad guys, to lay down their weapons in exchange for a ‘very good deal’, and they chose not to take the deal.
I pray the good people of Iran get what they need…as my favorite Joliet boy would say….”…to live, thrive and survive…there are still some things that make us all the same…”
I pray things work out well…because there is nothing worse than a crazy fanatic…
Thank you. Your comments are spot on in my opinion.
Take Kharg Island and give it to the Iranian resistance.
Unfortunately in the 4ú years thee Ayatolla have greatly massacred their slaves. From the beginning of their misrule through January this year, estimates of Gran Total accumulate hundreds of thousands
<Pahlavi would most likely be better than the lunatic mullahs.>
The lunatic is on the grass 🙂
“Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs, Got to keep the loonies on the path”
I’m in the mood for some Pink Floyd. On vinyl.
But does the paper hold their folded faces to the floor? If not I reckon the paperboy will bring more! 😉
I saw the South Arkansas Symphony Orchestra do that whole album and they were AWESOME!
Pahlavi..do not have a support of majority of Iranians…I bet his popularity is same as Zelensky’s in the eastern Ukraine….Iranians are not stupid…
Absolutely, WRONG! He has the most support – he is not planning on staying forever, but is someone to really around and has enough education in the US to understand our history and how to get a whole new political process started!
Reminds me of Turn, which was very well done for the first couple of seasons. Had they left out the soap opera shenanigans, it would have been a must watch.
Pakistan is an Islamic country and they have nuclear weapons.
Haven’t seen them threatening the world with them.
They have threatened India, and India has threatened them. Also, Pakistan is not Shiite like Iran. “Pakistan is predominantly Sunni, with estimates indicating that 85–90% of the Muslim population follows Sunni Islam (primarily the Hanafi school), while 10–15% identifies as Shia.”
Correct WeasleMB. They might be Sunni, which I was told they aren’t anywhere near as fanatical as the shiites.
Your statement is factually incorrect.
Just off the top of my head.
Al Qaeda, Isis, HTS, Boko Haram, Lashkar-E Taiba, Abu Sayyaf, and the Taliban are by far the most violent Muslim extremist terror groups, and they are all Sunnis.
In fact, al the Salafist terror groups are Sunnis.
Sunni Muslims also do not believe in the triggering of the Apocalypse with the return of the Twelfth Imam, which is a motivating fundamental belief of the Shiite imams of Iran. They are all crazed zealots. As one of my law professors once said, “you can never reason with or convince a zealot; they stick to their beliefs despite all contrary evidence.”
Oh! Just like Demtards?
BC it’s NOT Twelver Shia’s in charge…Mostly Sunni in command with a pragmatic military…They do not harbor a fanatical religious desire ro bring about the mahdi’s return….. Pakis’ nukes are there to deter their arch enemy India from getting too frisky…… that is their monolithic focus …not Armageddon
…..Thus far……
Abdul Qadeer (AQ) Khan, “the father of the Pakistani bomb,” was threatening. He sold nuke technology to North Korea, Iran, Libya, or any other rogue state who could pay him.
https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/aq-khan-dead-long-live-proliferation-network
India?
Different flavor Islam…there are many different sects. The Shiites in Iran are the craziest and hardest to live with.
Oh, Really?? Guess you were in Marxist class when you missed it!
What will the gay mullahs be getting?
Cornholed – they get to be someone else’s virgin.
Same things 72 virgin male goats!
“They want to die and collect 72 virgins, we are going to accommodate them” -Donald Rumsfeld in an interview during the First Iraq War.
They need to spell that better. I propose “Sheeites.” The old accepted way just makes me cautious of drinking their water.
Few understand the outlook of the lunatic mullahs. The government of Iran has been a supranational state since 1979.
The founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, stated that he didn’t care if country of Iran was totally destroyed if it afforded the advancement of the Ummah. He also gave advice on how to have sex with animals without violating Islamic laws.
They think their mahdi will come with an apocalyptic war, so it is a win/win for them to act crazy and destructive.
The very fact that they are not afraid to die makes them extremely dangerous that said it makes me wonder why they would bother negotiate….
The final settlement of “Iran” is not going to be “this easy.”
The hoped-for general uprising of the Iranian population against the mullahs has not happened. And it’s not going to happen, because the clerics have enough support among Iran’s Shia Islam fanatics to insure that any general uprising would suffer a bloody massacre of immense proportions, leaving hundreds of thousands of secular-leaning Iranians dead in the streets.
Removing the mullahs from power requires a massive ground invasion of Iran and the subsequent occupation of the country. That is not going to happen.
The outcome of this war will leave the mullahs in charge of an Iran whose Navy and Air Force have been declawed for now. But whose ground forces and whose asymmetric warfare capabilities will remain largely intact when the war finally ends, with Iran’s ability to resist a ground invasion and subsequent occupation still remaining largely in place.
It’s likely that an armistice will eventually be signed with the mullahs in which they promises not to pursue nuclear weapons and to end their ballistic missile program in return for the lifting of sanctions.
At which point they will return to a clandestine nuclear program which, although not as ambitious as their pre-war program, is still capable of producing a nuclear weapon at some point in the future. And they will also restart their missile program at some point in the future in direct defiance of their original commitment not to.
The only way to prevent this final outcome is to prosecute a ground invasion and occupation, with huge American and allied casualties as the certain price for that decision.
Actual, the resistance has been told to stay inside and off the streets by Centcom.
Is the resistance prepared to take the casualties they are certain to suffer if they do come out? Is CENTCOM willing to send them out knowing the kind of casualties they are certain to suffer in a serious attempt to take down the cleric regime?
OK …. If the resistance is committed enough to try it, and if the resistance is confident that the regime’s well-armed Shia followers won’t kill them by the hundreds of thousands rather than just by the tens of thousands, then they have the option of giving open revolution a shot.
But if the resistance is expecting the Marines and the 82nd Airborne to come to their rescue if their revolution is on the verge of collapse — or what is more likely, if it never really does get off the ground — they had better believe something else.
heres a thought send them guns and a few Israeli commandos to lead them Oh wait probably already in the works Shhhhh!!
What! Thirty plus thousand dead UNARMED protesters isn’t enough for you? Patience is a virtue. Let us first de-fang the snake, then the Persians can take back THEIR country. Give it time. Geesh.
…stomps off soapbox…
How will they massacre them? Last time they relied heavily on brigades from the Taliban and Hezbollah who had no compunction in murdering Persians, and used rooftop bastions with mobile AA guns in support. They also had a fully functioning command structure, CCTV surveillance and manned checkpoints, enabling them to reinforce critical areas and achieve local superiority by massing units. All these options are now either unavailable or severely attrited or disrupted, for example, Allied air superiority means the chances of destruction are directly correlated to target density.
The Shia fanatics tend to be religiously conservative peasants who predominantly occupy rural areas, or are used as recruiting material for the hated Basij and IRGC, which is why the January uprisings occurred in the urban, more liberal areas. As for ground forces, if they are intact it’s intentional, which might be an indicator as to the next phase of the operation and asymmetric warfare is only effective if the opposing force employs conventional tactics and there is local support for the insurgents.
As for allowing the Mullahs to survive in anything but massively reduced roles I doubt that outcome follows any of the precepts of the emergent Trump doctrine, which largely drove the commencement of the operation and guided its prosecution. Instead, what you suggest is a DS fantasy, wrapped up in obsolete concepts of realpolitik, and driven by an enemy’s perspective, that would destroy everything The President stood for, risked his life for, whilst exposing friends and family to state-sponsored persecution and eventual destruction. Not really a credible scenario if you think how he’s acted in both his Administrations.
I am praying that President Trump and the US can wrap this up in the next few weeks and before the midterms, because if the Democrats manage to steal
takethe House, then that will be the death knell for MAGA policies domestically and the Trump doctrines internationally. Can’t let that happen, people!At the strategic planning level the political considerations are as important, if not more so, as the military ones. Team Trump executed this phase of the plan with a clear understanding of the likely responses of their domestic opponents, but also how the military operation would synchronise with the MAGA agenda. So both military and political outcomes would be planned to balance, hence the changes in operational and diplomatic timetables that the MSM tries to exploit as failure indicators, bur which are in reality is the outwardly visible effects of trying to maintain this equilibrium.
I disagree. What it requires is and unconventional warfare operation by US Special Forces teams working with those of other Arab countries’ special forces in training and arming a large number of indigenous Iranian people into a force that can take down what is left of the theocracy and its followers. I once spent three months learning how to do this. I would hope we still have those skills.
You are talking about supporting an insurgency which could take years of effort to produce tangible results against a cleric regime which has a highly decentralized command structure and which has no reservations about killing as many Iranians as it takes to keep themselves in power.
Is America willing to send in the Marines and the 82nd Airborne to come to the insurgent’s rescue if their anti-cleric revolution is on the verge of collapse — or what is more likely to happen, the insurgency never really does get off the ground?
I think not.
If a miracle happens and Iran’s mullah regime suddenly collapses in a couple of months, I’ll be cheering that event along with everyone else. But in the meantime, I remain highly skeptical this war will end with the kind of complete victory over the mullahs which is now being advertised as being possible.
You are still fighting the last war…
Think outside the box.
Seriously.
Probably have the skills, not sure we have the wills. That could be a long slog with the left yapping and biting at the heels of the civilian leaders assisted by the media lapdogs.
Personally, I don’t want to see one hair on the head of even one of our military put out of place. Whatever the goal was for this stupid action is not worth it. The stated goal (Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon) could be taken care of by other means. Wasn’t that the stated goal of the attack when we bombed their nuke facility? Well, we did it – end of story. Unless we were lied to and they have another nuke making facility.
Someone might have lied? No way.
The majority of Persia is not Muslim. that is not their cultural heritage The countryside of uneducated poor is where they have dragged their brute force enforcers from some concertina wire and snipers wuld put an end to the black leather jacket motorcycle riding enforcers who the Mullahs called on to stop the uorisings.
“The majority of Persia is not Muslim”
Sigh…
“ The majority of Persia is not Muslim. that is not their cultural heritage.”
Thank you, that is correct. Persians have been resisting since 1979. In recent memory, there was the 2009 attempt to throw off the Muslim theocracy, another in 2019, another in 2022 which was sparked by the murder of Masah Imini for not wearing her hijab correctly, and now the most recent attempt to regain their freedom from living under Sharia.
You have never heard of such uprisings in Afghanistan or Iraq. The reason is those are culturally Muslim countries. During this latest massacre of Iranian/Persians, Iraqis were imported into Iran to help do the murdering. That’s because Muslim Iraqis hate Persians and have no problem killing them.
There is a strong cultural and racial difference.
That had better NOT be the solution. We the people are NOT in the mood for that and will not tolerate it.
Who is we?
Oh, WTH, let’s just nuke em til they glow. (Sarcasm)
Sorry, but you are actually WRONG or just MISLED!
https://archive.is/suVUZ
The link is to a Washington Post article posted on Citizen Free Press. Article written by a lib college prof., but it states that optimism about the Iranian War outcome is great in Israel, so if the Post prints it and a lib wrote it, reading between the lines, we know that the conflict is indeed going well. Hope the link works; if not, article is from Citizen Free Press.
Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi
PDJT & Co. are right to keep him at bay. I can’t put my finger on it, but something doesn’t feel right with this guy, may the fact that he wants it too much?
Can anyone say Maria Corina Machado
Trust your gut.
Pahlavi does have significant support among Iranians. His name and the chant “Javid Shah!” was fairly common during the nationwide uprising that preceded the current conflict. Apparently he and those in Iran who support him see him as a transitional figure, providing stability as they move to a representative form of government.
It’s up to the Iranians–I hope.
This.
Given the coverage, indications are that Reza Pahlavi as the leader of Iran is the preferred outcome from the usual suspects.
Seeming as how this is Iran’s future we are talking about here, It is the choice of all Iranians to make. The best outcomes require their involvement for them to be invested in the same.
Can anyone say “CEE-EYE-AY”?
Can anyone say “Stavak”?
Good grief, isn’t this an engraved invitation to put those poor people back in the old hell they were in before this past 47 years?
To my understanding, the CIA was there to assist the Stavak and together they ran an operation which was supposed to keep the oil flowing, not so much to benefit the people of Iran. Some things were good, for women not being suppressed by crazy mullahs and the Shah was supposedly making a better life for the Iranian people . . .
I saw that in a slide show at a church I attended, where the minister had gone on a trip to Iran for a big celebration . . . then the craziest thing happened the next day when Mom and I were at the Pasadena Hilton having lunch and I was telling her about this slide show I saw and then the bus boy who was working at the next table heard me and he lashed into me about the Shah and how horrible he was, he mentioned the Stavak and how America should not be helping the Shah and the Stavak . . . his English was very good and he was quite articulate in his fury, then he stormed off, the dishes rattling.
My Mom and I were quite startled – this was in 1971 – we had never had anything like that happen and we were unaware of things not going well in Iran. Okay, purely anecdotal, right? Just us two having a moment of revelation over our salads. This was before the state of affairs had gotten wider attention. Richard Nixon was the President.
Another thing I learned in reading various books about Iran in those years and in the midst of the Revolution was the prevalence of “open sewers” – so, why were there open sewers when they should have had all that oil money to have basic sanitary infrastructure? Do they still have open sewers all these years later?
The fact that CPAC is associated with promoting the Shah’s son tells me plenty about this new scheme which no doubt has the support of the “intelligence community” wanting to get back in there to “help”. How are those Iranian people going to even have a chance to really have a new start, a good start, to keep their oil to rebuild their own country. Plus, do they still have the Royal Crown Jewels in a safe place (they were kept in a place like Iran’s Fort Knox, where the previous Shah, the grandfather of this new guy, gave the Crown Jewels to the nation to secure the currency). Where is all that right now and is it still there to help the new Iran or has someone made off with it?
Is Israel backing the Shah’s son? If so, definitely I smell a rat!
CPAC pretty much seemed peopled with the “Never Trump” types back in 2015, 2016 – no thanks!
We had to install the Shah in power, and as soon as we withdrew support for him, the Islamists easily took over. Iran is going to be run by Islamic fundamentalists; the only way that doesn’t happen is if we install leaders and back them militarily.
My gut tells me that Pahlavi is Islamic. Even after the total destruction of his country and exile of his father by the Mullahs, he remains Islamic. If he reverted to the Iranian ancient Zoroastrian tradition that would signal a true desire to restore the true Iran. Even Christianity has some Iranian roots with the Three Wise Men (Zoroastrian Maji) directed to Jesus’s birth by the Star of David. Remaining Islamic seems like the wrong foot on which to start the counter revolution.
PDJT & Co. are right to keep him at bay. I can’t put my finger on it,
They’re waiting for him to be awarded the Nobel peace prize.
Bad timing for “No Kings” crazies this weekend. Keep him at arms length.
This sounds like Corporate ConInc CPAC attempting to influence our foreign policy.
The fact that so many attendees showed up disguised as empty seats tells us that their influence will be limited.
“The fact that so many attendees showed up disguised as empty seats tells us that their influence will be limited.” 🙂
and it also could be said that is the way the mainstream press used to portray Trump rallies. I am not saying it’s true or not about attendance here, but I read that article about CPAC and I don’t remember if it was a friendly or not to the movement…….
The Iranian repressive and authoritarian regime has been successful in preventing any internal opposition or resistance. I hope if things get that bad here, we will see vigorous, organized resistance. Right now Lawfare, occasional Antifa like mob violence, rampant state sponsored crime and fraud keeps us off guard. Can get a lot worse.
Not quite true. There have been significant popular protests (one was put down during the Obama administration). The largest–it was nationwide–took place just before the current conflict. The government killed between 20,000 and 30,000 unarmed civillians in the course of trying to put it down. It ended with the commencement of American and Israeli bombing.
City of London, trying to get back involved in Iran.
Is the city of London a supporter of the IRGC at this point?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wz980vj76-I
“………..a large gathering of organized Persians and Texas evangelicals who support Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi as the outside opposition leader to Iran…………..”
It’s whether or not the citizens of Iran, who put their own lives on the line to try and overthrow the Mullahs, want or show support for Pahlavi that’s of singular importance here. The opinions and feelings of Texans don’t matter here. And as for the “organized Persians” in attendance, they can show their support by joining there fellow Iranians in their homeland.
The Persian populace is overwhelming supportive of him.
The question is what is the Islamist vs Persian count.
“The question is what is the TRUE Islamist vs Persian count.”
Is taking a census in Persia any more accurate than ballot counting in a US democrat controlled precinct?
“The Persian populace is overwhelming supportive of him.”
When overwhelming evidence shows that support to be true, then I will be looking forward to reestablishing strong and long lasting economic ties with the Persian people. I wish them everlasting peace and prosperity as they crawl out from under the mullah’s oppression.
Absolutely!
There are too many Islamists.
That’s a very salient point!
CPAC 2026 has definitely been a big dud, very disappointing. And I believe a big reason is because Charlie Kirk is no longer with us. Prove me wrong!
Kirk has terrible political instincts. If he was pro CPAC that proves my point.
….INCLUDE HIS WARNING TO -PDJT- DO NO START/DO NOT GET SUCK TO WAR WITH IRANIANS……!!! SMART INSTICT OF CHARLIE KIRK !!!!!!!!!!!
Agree – Apparently, he was smarter than Trump about this.
Please, no MEK. That chic hangs out in Paris’ Socialisists circles just like the Mullas did.
How in the heck did Giuliani get hooked up with those people.
MEK was in large part the reason for the mullahs ascent to power. “The Red and the Black”. Once in power, the mullah regime eliminated the MEK threat.
They’re dedicated communists.
The MEK, which is communist, is aggressive but fairly small and apparently not so popular in Iran.
They are hated by the Iranian people.
The same way a disturbing number of US politicians did: money.
DS always has the next flavor of Koolaid lined up.
(That’s exactly how I got suckered into voting for Obama in 2008 because I hated Bush and Clinton so much, while only beginning to suspect they were all the same underneath the different jerseys)
CIA/MI6 overthrows Mossedegh and sets up Pahlavi, CIA/MI6 later overthrows Pahlavi with Khomeini fresh from Paris, Khomeini dies, Khameini rules for decades while accumulating a worldwide real estate empire (SAVAK morphs into IRGC?) – especially in London, then VSGPDJT kills Khameini.
Oh no, return to “Go.”
Pahlavi is n ot necessarily ‘self appointed’. If you’ve been watching the Iranian uprising, the Iranian civilians have been calling out for him. Pahlavi has been in talks with President Trump. He has offered his services and plan for a transitional government, to lead the country until things are stable enough for an election, where Iranians can decide what kind of government they want. It appears that a majority of Iranians want this.
“Appears” based on what propaganda created and delivered by whom?
Appears in live streams of the uprising preceding the war… It was spontaneous. Is it a majority? It’s impossible to know.
Correct. And it’s also impossible to know if the majority of Iranians even want a regime change.
It’s only impossible for those whose heads are firmly buried in the sand of their own uninformed opinions.
Pompeous Pompeo did admit his boys from CAI/MODASS…did make sure it looks like ” spontaneous”….my as*…..
The push for him by certain segments of our govt makes me suspicious.
Are the protests there like our protests here? ( summer of love comes to mind) Other countries might see our protests as organic and not understand our alphabet agencies are behind them.
Our protesters beg to rid our country of President Trump, but the majority does not want to be rid of him.
I am not saying the Iranians do not want a new leader, I am saying I am suspicious Pahlavi has been chosen by people other
than Iranians…..??
I am just in wait and see mode. I do agree with those cautious of Pahlavi.
I agree with your comment.
Makes common sense .
If the mullahs fall and the Iranians create a new government, Pahlavi could be an appropriate figurehead and head of state, much like before the 1979 “revolution.” But could a parliamentary system even function when there are at least two generations of Iranians who have known only dictatorship, where there would no doubt be both communist and Islamist political parties vying for seats in the Parliament and cabinet. How would anything ever get done? Would be interesting to see how it was accomplished post-WWII in Japan, with the Emperor remaining head of state and a new form of government set up. Totally different cultures, much more homogenous in Japan compared to the Iranian populace, but still . . . one can dream.
My rather prodigious gut says to stay away from this dude. His dad was a CIA puppet and he’s been living off US taxpayer funds from Swiss bank accounts in Paris for a very long time. Meanwhile, his countrymen suffer.
Good grief – the ignorance within these assertions is astounding.
I will let the Iranian citizens choose their leader. They seem to like him and maybe he would be great for their first non-Mullah leader. In the meantime, I am going to watch and let the people of Iran have a voice.
Cuz you are on the ground in Tehran with direct knowledge including accurate polling or election results? The ignorance is to assume that anyone outside a small minority want this guy.
There is a reason there was a revolution in the first place. Dad was an asshole to his people except the elites.
The suggestion that the Shah was some combination of George Washington, Ghandi and Queen Elizabeth is a joke.
You’ve got it.
and we haven’t backed worse in the annals of American history? I point you to the assassinations of President Diem and his brother, head of the police force, in 1963.
What do you think that did to the stability of South Vietnam? Approved by the CIA and Kennedy……….Not necessarily disagreeing with you, but we haven’t had the greatest track record either.
Yes, it certainly is.
I’ve never seen anything like it on the Tree House.
Care to support that Keystone Seaker?
BuckNutGuy has it right in his summation in my very studied opinion.
Operation Boot and Ajax.
It’s a bigger picture:
Nice video you chose to share, great perspective–I sense some real value in her presentation. Thanks!
Sundance is openly critical of CPAC, fair enough. But is it the structure of the event, or the guest list, the promoters themselves?
Or do you feel it’s irrelevant in today’s world? If it’s worth saving what improvements could be made.
Fair questions.
From what I can see, the faux MAGA grifter class are the main people involved in CPAC:
Steve Bannon: Epstein buddy and plotter to use the 25th Amendment to get rid of PDJT and replace him with Mike Pompeo (Traitor Pence was going to have already stepped down and replaced by Pompeo).
Jack Posobiec: MAGA grifter who spouts “Christ Is King” but remains silent upon learning about Bannon and Epstein’s close relationship and says nothing while Candace Owens slanders, attacks, and accuses Erika Kirk of all sorts of heinous behaviors.
Gen Mike Flynn, Megyn Kelly, and MTG who spend the majority of their time being anti-Trump. Every day they attack, complain, and lie.
I’m not sure if Candace was invited but, at minimum, they side with her.
Okay you think the guest list is off, but what about the concept itself.? What would you do?
Any “conservative” event Trump avoids is a message. I think Trump can’t avoid Israel’s involvement in the Iran affair, but there is more than enough signal out there that Trump isn’t aligned with neocons or Israel as neither truly align with peace.
As I can’t imagine anything worse than who is running Iran into the ground now, I’d certainly support Pahlavi. A friend of mine from graduate school served in the Pece Corps in Iran (pre-1979). He admired the people and loved the country. Eliminating the current government is a very good thing in my view and worth the cost.
He is right about one thing, it will be up to the Iranian/Persians to finish the job of getting rid of the death cult.
I’m hoping somehow someway the people will be armed so they can fight back against the sob’s.
OK, this is an entitled wanna-be who didn’t read the room.
Thank God this courageous soul spoke up.
Feel bad for him, probably spent some $$$ to attend and got rino pep rally instead of MAGA.
Yes, indeed.
He didn’t know it would just be a crash of rinos pimping for more rinos.
Tired of the bull$h!t too.
There isn’t going to be a regime change, The Shah was an installed puppet, and his pampered stupid son has a close to a zero chance of also becoming an installed puppet.
Every day this drags on the possibility of a regime change becomes less, not more. A plausible outcome might be a protracted civil war., but even that is very unlikely. Needless to say, that would be a disastrous outcome not only for the middle east, but the rest of the world too.
The waves of fleeing Iranian migrants(and from neighboring countries), for years to come, would be overwhelming.
Arch Fabian traitor NAFTA Newtie would be embraced by these wankers.
“Self appointed??”
Seriously??
Wasn’t this tree planted in in the commitment to what is as opposed to what we think or wish or hope it might be?
No person has the unified support of the Iranian people, the diaspora, the pro-Iranian organizations around the world or even his former opponents like Reza Pahlavi has.
No one.
Fact.
CPAC’s only goal is to give MAGA a schlapp in the face.
Ewwwww!
Great speech from a person representing making Iran great again (MIGA) – in a good way.
p.s.
given the military task going on in Iran, the security for pahlavi would be a headful of activity(s) to get that to occur.
p.s.
It environment in Iran is dangerous at the time.
The coast might not ever be 90% clear (the IRGC is strongly armed), so,
as such, the signal (no internet, pamphlets? )
has not been given for the citizens of iran to take the last step(S) (which could take a year+), in 2026.
( USA 250th anniversary )
Love thy neighbors
Love thy neighbors
“Clean break” and “transition to democracy” (i.e. “our ‘democracy’ of fake elections)
https://nypost.com/2026/03/28/us-news/reza-pahlavi-tells-cpac-remnants-of-snake-iranian-regime-cannot-be-allowed-to-rule-venom-is-in-its-dna/
His use of the phrases is no accident.
Also, could he look any more like a Bond villain in that picture?
Please recognize the p-r-o-p-a-g-a-n-d-a message:
That a “radical regime,” which seized power over a geographically-important part of the globe, is “absolutely unstoppable.” We must appease them. We cannot do anything about them. Hundreds of thousands of their citizens must now die for daring to oppose them. They will gain “the bomb,” and then they will just “set them all off.” It’s all inevitable. So please, just put on your tin-foil hat and pretend that the piece of carpet closest to you is a “prayer mat.” Sell your microwave oven, because very soon you won’t need it anymore . . .
It may well be that many of you within the sound of my “voice” are less than 47 years old . . .
The rest of us are old enough to understand: p-r-o-p-a-g-a-n-d-a!
The realities of a situation “47 years in the making” can be settled “decisively,” but it will still require time. And force. Propaganda shouts to you that “it won’t.”
Postscript: I’m kind of a self-student of this sort of human history. So, I have textbooks in my personal library on the “scientific” topic of propaganda. Some of them are a hundred years old. And, they should scare you to death. Especially now, when they are repeating themselves. The venue has changed. The strategy has not.
I guess I’m not paying attention but what has CPAC done to turn off MAGA voters?
I’m not impressed.
Many of the sessions on the main stage were very well attended on Friday with seats being very difficult to find. On the other hand the Texas venue is much larger than the ones in the DC area. Im glad that many Iranians showed up too. Maybe that might wake Republicans up to the many parts of the world that Democrats have helped to go into the darkness of tyranny. This creates massive exodus and migration to the US. The cry of the Republicans should NOT be democracy. It should be freedom free market and free enterprise. This way many of the immigrants will enthusiastically repatriate. You don’t find many Singaporeans living in America. They don’t need to.
We don’t need any more immigrants in our country.
No, Reza Pahlavi is not self-appointed. The Shah of Iran never abdicated when he left Iran in 1979. He went to Egypt for medical treatment for cancer. He left to avoid bloodshed, refusing to order troops to fire on the crowds demanding his overthrow. Reza Pahlavi is his heir, as Crown Prince, and he is the legal Head-of-State of Iran.
I’m thinking, and by the way the CPAC crowd loved him, standing and cheering. I’m thinking he has legal standing to sign agreements with the United States, for example opening up Iran to investment, as a means to pay the bills for this war. It’s always about the money. He spoke about strategic relationships with the United States and with Israel.
And who else? There isn’t anyone else. The man is a patriot for his country, and patriots take on roles like leading transitions.
” Reza Pahlavi is not self-appointed. The Shah of Iran never abdicated”
Lets not kid ourselves.
Operation Boot/Ajax. Look it up.
Boot Ajax overthrew Mosaddegh, the Prime Minister, in 1953. It did not install the Shah. The Shah was the Shah, at that time, as his father had been. That land has had a king for 2500 years.
The original Shah was installed in the 1950s by British IC over the duly elected Prime Minister of Iran, which is why Iranian revolted in 1979. I’m no Iran apologist, but I’m also not going to sit around pretend that this man is OWED leadership when he’s done jack squat to earn it.
Self appointed? Khameni and his insane Islam self appointed himself the Mullah of the World. America’s CIA were involved.
CPAC RINOS keep pushing their agendas.