TEHRAN- Reza Pahlavi, the deposed and disgraced former crown prince who fled Iran nearly half a century ago, recently turned up at the European Parliament. Once again masquerading as the voice of the Iranian people, this clown without a crown trotted out the same lines he has repeated hundreds of times in recent years. None of this is surprising coming from him. Nothing else was ever to be expected.
After all, now that his ties to Israel are out in the open, he can no longer be dismissed as just another opposition figure or a prince pining for the Peacock Throne. He has earned a more fitting title: a direct agent of Israel and of Netanyahu.
What is truly baffling is Europe. Even as the cost-of-living squeeze drives its own citizens into the streets, it still falls for dream-peddlers and wheeler-dealers like Reza Pahlavi. The Europeans seem to have forgotten that the mass protests across their continent are fueled by soaring prices, the fallout of the unprovoked war the United States and Israel imposed on Iran. And one of that war’s chief instigators was none other than Reza Pahlavi’s paymaster, Netanyahu. It was a war without cause. It spilled so much innocent blood and showed once again how bankrupt the West’s human rights claims are.
