" ... I met him this week in a hotel room in Washington DC, near where he lives. While we talked over mineral water and fish and chips he pulled out his BlackBerry to see the latest news of the street protests in Tehran.
The repression of his fellow Iranians by the Ahmadinejad regime, still in place after the rigged elections of the summer, angers him profoundly.
"When I think that today we Iranians have to be represented by these people, warmongering, terrorist-sponsoring, Holocaust denying – can I possibly sit here and say nothing? I don't want anything in return. I do it because it is my duty," he says.
In exile since his father was deposed in 1979, the Prince, 49, remains the figurehead for the three or four million strong Iranian diaspora.
'Iranians, running in joy, as the Shah's army opens fire, December 27, 1978'
Since the elections he has stepped up calls for civil disobedience by Iranians, and for external support for that. ........"None of this could have happened without foreign support – but that is not the same as an occupying army that comes in and changes a regime – I don't see how that can ever be legitimate."
'Town-hall-type-meeting' between the Shah's army & the Iranian People ...
December 27, 1978'
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You may have noticed, he has also been placed as a blogger on the Huffington Post. Which tells you all you need to know about what's at the core of the Huffington Post.
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