PRAGUE, Czech Republic, June 6 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Attending the 'democracy and security' conference, hosted by Vaclav Havel, Jose Maria Aznar and Natan Sharansky, Reza Pahlavi of Iran said, "I have come to Prague to ask for your solidarity with the people of Iran against a common enemy: Islamist preachers of intolerance who turn young men and women into walking bombs."
In remarks delivered after President Bush's address at the conference, the former jet fighter pilot reiterated his rejecting of war as an option against his homeland.
Skeptical with the prospects of diplomacy as a tool to pressure Iran's theocracy, the forty seven year old Iranian said, "four years of diplomatic jostling, of economic carrots and sticks, have proven the insensitivity of theocrats to external pressures." Instead, he offered the conference the "untried option of tying external pressures to human rights in Iran, which would boost the morale of Iranians in their everyday resistance, and encourage internal pressures that the Iranian regime would really feel."
Highlighting the clerical regime's failure to deliver "a minimal level of welfare and freedom," Reza Pahlavi said the regime has driven "Iran's women, youth, teachers, workers, ethnic groups and many others to resist 'Hizbullahi stormtroopers' in Iranian cities everyday. All those courageous Iranians want is to join the Free World. The Free World must respond."
"As an Iranian who has dedicated my life to help bring representative democracy to my homeland, the message I carry to you from Iranians inside my homeland is: As you face our oppressors, do not turn your back to us. We are your best friends in the struggle against a common enemy, the enemy of peace on earth," he said.
Opposition leader to Iran's clerical regime, Reza Pahlavi has rejected the option of war against his homeland, instead drawing attention to the mass discontent in Iran against a regime that is ripe to fall. Reza Pahlavi is an advocate of a non-violent campaign of civil disobedience as a method of defiance to the ruling theocracy. Iran's former crown prince, Reza Pahlavi is an author, a husband and father to three daughters.
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