Pahlavi’s family fled Iran months before the Islamic Revolution in 1979, and his father Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was the last monarch of Iran, which has been under clerical leadership since his ouster. Iran's Revolutionary Guards warned on Saturday that safeguarding security was a "red line" and the military vowed to protect public property. “You better not start shooting because we'll start shooting too,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Friday. Trump said he was not inclined at present to meet Reza Pahlavi, signalling that he was waiting to see how the crisis unfolds before backing an opposition figure. The agitation began last month in a few markets in the capital Tehran over economic woes and later snowballed into a nationwide uprising.

Source: The Telegraph January 10, 2026 10:55 UTC