The widow of the last shah of Iran asks the West for “help” for anti-government protesters

Sep. 28 (EUROPA PRESS) –

Farah Pahlavi, the widow of the last shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, has asked the West to “help” those who have been protesting against the government in recent weeks, especially after learning of the death of a 22-year-old girl in police custody. , after she was arrested for wearing the Islamic headscarf incorrectly.

“The West can help by telling all the horrors that are happening in Iran under this regime,” he said in an interview for the Israeli television channel i24News, in which he expressed his desire that the “regime be overthrown.”

The wife of the last shah has assured that there is “risk of destabilization”, since until now “there has never been a similar movement” in the last ten years. “Everyone needs help finding freedom,” she has said.

Farah has said that Iranian women have been fighting for their freedoms and their place in society for decades and has said that she is “proud” of those compatriots, “her sisters”, who “despite oppression, have had” the courage to confront this regime.

“It is the first time that we see such a large movement in Iran and in all its cities,” he celebrated from his residence in Paris, one of the places where he is in exile after having to flee the Persian country after her husband was overthrown during the 1979 Islamic revolution.

Farah has also had words of consolation for the family of the 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, who died on September 16 in police custody, as well as for the loved ones of the dozens of dead that have been registered after the repression of the protests.

“Mahsa’s death has broken my heart. I send my condolences to her parents and also to those of all those who have died in recent weeks,” he said.