Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis., told Newsmax on Friday that the Crown Prince of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, assured him that the Iranian people want the U.S. “to enable Israel” to help overthrow the current regime but won’t support “American boots on the ground.”
Pahlavi, the son of the former Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, left Iran in 1978 to study in the United States but has more recently begun presenting himself as a possible alternative to Iran’s current leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Van Orden told “National Report” that he spoke with Pahlavi “for over an hour” earlier this week. According to Van Orden, Pahlavi told him the Iranian people “don’t want …American boots on the ground” or “regime change and nation-building driven by the United States of America.”
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