Don’t Strike a Deal With Iran’s Current Leaders, Opposition Figure Pahlavi Warns
GRAPEVINE, Texas, March 28 (Reuters) – Iranian opposition figure Reza Pahlavi on Saturday warned that negotiating for peace with the current leaders of Iran would only push the threat to Americans down the road, and said he would once again call for Iranians to protest in the streets. Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran’s ousted shah, was warmly received during his address to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Texas, an annual gathering of Republican activists and lawmakers. He drew a standing ovation as he took the stage, and his pledges to help liberate the Iranian people sparked enthusiastic rounds of applause from conservatives and Iranian Americans in the audience. Citing President Donald Trump’s comments earlier this month that he was pressing ahead with attacks on Iran because he did not want to confront security threats from the country “every two years,” Pahlavi warned that negotiating with Iran’s current leadership would mean doing exactly that. “The only thing that the remnants of this regime can be relied on to do is to buy time, to …
