Iran protests are at do-or-die moment, says son of former shah

Reza Pahlavi, whose father was deposed in 1979, says west must give full support and proscribe the Revolutionary Guards

The Iranian revolution is at a do-or-die moment, requiring western governments to give their full, active support or risk seeing the movement’s impact wane, said Reza Pahlavi, the oldest son of the former Shah of Iran, deposed in 1979, in a Guardian interview.

Pahlavi said there were signs that if the west imposed maximum pressure, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and some reformist politicians would desert the regime.