The exiled son of Iran's last monarch on Friday urged the international community to intensify pressure on Tehran to help protesters overthrow clerical rule, even as a sweeping crackdown appeared to have largely suppressed street demonstrations.
“The people have not retreated,” Reza Pahlavi told a news conference in Washington. “The slaughter has not stopped.”
The Iranian opposition figure insisted momentum remained on the protesters’ side.
“That’s not my opinion,” he said. “That’s the verdict delivered loudly and clearly by the people in the face of bullets.”
Anti-government demonstrators and supporters of exiled Iranian crown prince Reza Pahlavi outside the Houses of Parliament in London. EPA
Iranians during a protest in Tehran on January 9.
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