President Donald Trump questioned on Jan. 14 how much support the exiled crown prince of Iran had in the Middle-Eastern country.
Reza Pahlavi, the son of the last shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi—who was ousted in the Islamic Revolution of 1979, which brought the first ayatollah to power—has been a prominent figure in the protests that have raged in that country since December 2025, cheering on the demonstrators from abroad.
