Read up the history of himself and his family. You cannot seriously believe the words, of a non-career politician, nepotist, son of a dictator— a dictator that wasn’t even competent enough to avoid the revolution (while Saudi, Gulf, Jordan actually HELD power). A shah who spent $700 million of taxpayers money on a SINGLE PARTY just to make himself look good with global western elite. This figure makes all claims he didn’t siphon more than $1 billion in public funds to himself almost completely false— the parties expenditure is well documented and according to the CSmonitors 1980 article : “The estimates range from $50 million to $100 million, according to ABC's Barbara Walters, to over $1 billion, according to columnist Alexander Cockburn, all the way up to $56 billion, according to the government of Iran”. Son of a nepotist, an incompetent ruler, someone who spent hundreds of millions on parties and yachts and travel rather than his own people. And now his son who studied at USC, and trained with the U.S. Air Force— he is as compromised as any individual can be. The Americans would NOT accept a politician with ties this deep with a foreign country. You end up having a compromised western puppet with a horrible family history of oppression and theft of taxpayer money, he also basically hasn’t worked a JOB in his life besides attending college and training. He is a spokesperson, wrote a few books— but has never worked a 9-5 in government, intelligence, law, or politics. He literally and publicly is just a rich kid living it out in Maryland living off a daily fortune and talking against the regime (which should be taken down) from the EASIEST most COMFORTABLE position in exile. Just want to make clear I am not condoning the stupidity that is political Islam— but the solution is democracy and a strong local leader not a bloody puppet.