Iran crown prince’s phantom army of the Revolutionary Guard defectors exposed
For years, Reza Pahlavi has presented contacts inside Iran’s military and security establishment as a central pillar of his strategy for political transition. He denied ever communicating with the Guard’s senior command, claiming his earlier references merely concerned individual members who discreetly contacted him via social media direct messages. Kazem Kazerounian is a professor and former dean of Engineering (2012-24) at the University of Connecticut.
- ▪For years, Reza Pahlavi has presented contacts inside Iran’s military and security establishment as a central pillar of his strategy for political transition.
- ▪He denied ever communicating with the Guard’s senior command, claiming his earlier references merely concerned individual members who discreetly contacted him via social media direct messages.
- ▪Kazem Kazerounian is a professor and former dean of Engineering (2012-24) at the University of Connecticut.
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For years, Reza Pahlavi has presented contacts inside Iran’s military and security establishment as a central pillar of his strategy for political transition. Rather than describing these as occasional anonymous messages, he spoke at various times of daily contact with military “representatives,” telephone calls, faxes, a secure defection platform, “large sections” of the security forces signaling loyalty, and ultimately over 160,000 applicants.Yet in a Reuters interview recorded on July 14, 2026, just one day after the British government announced that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps would be outlawed under newly enacted state-threat legislation, Pahlavi offered a starkly different account.
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