Iranian opposition figures condemn attack on Israel, call for uprising

Prominent Iranian opposition figures condemn Iran’s drone attack on Israel, calling it contrary to the will of most Iranians, whom they urge to oppose the regime of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

“Khamenei’s war is not Iran’s war or that of the Iranian nation,” Reza Pahlavi, the crown prince of Iran, who is living in exile in the United States, writes on Facebook.

“Khamenei and his regime have turned Iran into a backward and isolated country, and by involving the nation and the state in another war, they only add to the misery of Iranians,” Pahlavi adds.

The path to “lasting peace and security in the Middle East,” writes Pahlavi, “is to support the people of Iran who are fighting to reclaim our country and our rightful place in the world.”

Afshin Ellian, a well-known law professor who fled Iran for the Netherlands, writes on X: “Despite the attack on Israel, the Iranian population has been and is against this criminal regime [of Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei]. The Iranian resistance movement is ready to fight Khamenei’s regime,” he writes.

Pouria Zeraati, a television anchor at the UK-based channel Iran International, calls the Iranian Revolutionary Guards “terrorists” on X, and mocks its codename for the attack on Israel, “Honest Promise.”