After President Trump’s UN speech today, Reza Pahlavi sat with Martha MacCallum on Fox’s The Story. Pahlavi’s line was that peace cannot exist while this regime exists.

      💡   KEY TAKEAWAY:

• • Use the regime’s own frozen money to arm Iranians.
  • America spends nothing, sends no troops, and still gets the boots on the ground.
  • The terrorist regime goes.
  • What comes back is a free Iran that profits the United States, a pro-America government, and lasting peace and stability in the Middle East.

⭕️ ON TRUMP ⭕️

🔹 “The president has always believed that there has to be peace and stability” for millions of Iranians and for the neighborhood.
🔸 We're not asking America to put troops on the ground, “as the president has said.”
🔸 Iranians can deliver “that peace that the president is seeking.”
🔸 “If the president wants an ultimate stability, let Iranians who are committed to peace be the ones that he partners with, and not think that this regime will ever, through negotiations, be capable of giving what it is asking for.”
🔸 On the Gulf: if it is Trump’s intention “to bring about an environment of stability and peace,” then “the job has to be finished.”
🔹 Called the Sec. Bessent’s economic squeeze “a fantastic job.” Said the missing piece is help for Iranians inside the country.

⭕️ ABOUT THE REGIME ⭕️

🔸 Survival method is baked into its DNA: repress at home and bully abroad through proxies.
🔸 Houthis and other proxies are not the core problem. The regime is the threat. Its nature is the threat.
🔸 It is buying time, hoping to outlast the Trump administration and then fool the next set of partners into treating it as legitimate.
🔸 47 years of the same DNA. Changing the face and color of the system does not change the system.
🔸 Executions are ongoing. “Every day somebody is standing to be executed in Iran.”
🔹 True beginning of the end: when they can no longer pay their mercenaries at the end of the month, and governments start shutting embassies and kicking out diplomats.

⭕️ JANUARY 8–9 ⭕️

🔸 Pahlavi said he had preached civil disobedience and nonviolence for years.
🔸 January 8 and 9 proved the regime will kill without remorse. Tens of thousands. He added it is capable of killing “maybe even in the millions” to survive.
🔸 Those dead did not die for an open Strait or a nuclear deal. They died for liberty.
🔹 The Iranian people are "your best partner in a future, post-regime, that can bring that element of stability and peace, and beyond that, opportunities that will make life better for Iranians and at the same time would profit the United States." 
🔸 MacCallum recalled Trump’s line from that period: “your hour of freedom has come” and that America would have their back. Pahlavi’s answer to “what happened” was the massacre, then the need to adjust and equip the people.

⭕️ THE ASK ⭕️

🔸 Not asking for American boots on the ground. “The boots on the ground are the people of Iran themselves.”
🔸 Not asking American taxpayers to fund the campaign. Funding path he put on the table: hundreds of millions in frozen funds, repurposed, “without costing a penny to the American taxpayer.”
🔸 “We need to equip the Iranian people.” Equalize the playing field. 
🔹 Sensitive on publicly discussing on how money and weapons get in. “When there’s a will, there’s a way.”
🔸 Said it is not America alone. Regional partners who take Iranian missiles on their buildings have a reason to help end the source.

⭕️ ON TALKS ⭕️

🔸 Do not treat the regime as a partner that can deliver peace through negotiation.
🔸 Partner with Iranians committed to peace.
🔹 On public “moderate” talk from officials: the country is run by the IRGC. Anyone with a moderate tone gets accused of betraying the system. So they play the part of saying they are trying and the other side is stubborn.
🔸 Regime has its back to the wall and is desperate. That does not make it a reliable counterparty.

⭕️ MESSAGE TO THE GULF ⭕️

🔸 MacCallum cited Gen. Jack Keane: Gulf states need to “man up” and finish this. Pahlavi’s reply: not a manning-up contest. Clarity. Confrontation or negotiation. Which one is it.
🔸 Something started earlier this year. Endgame is Iranians liberating themselves, which will bring immediate relief to the Gulf, Israel, and others in the line of fire.

⭕️ CIVIL WAR CLAIM ⭕️

🔸 MacCallum relayed a regional source saying overthrow means civil war, that nationalism rose after the Feb 28 attacks, and that the regime still has support.
🔸 Pahlavi: when he called people into the streets, millions showed up across 31 provinces. Different ethnic groups, religions, and segments of society. That is unity, he said, not fragmentation.
🔸 Regime planted the discord. Free Iranians, he said, lived together in peace for centuries. “The lion and the sun revolution is at hand.”

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OPINION — Pahlavi has always been really good at both praising Trump and also advocating the position of the people inside Iran. Obviously, a supermajority of Iranians do not want to hear talks of negotiations or deals.

But today is the first time I heard Pahlavi put together his proposal all together. Recall that from earlier today the regime's condition No. 2 today was immediate payment of all frozen Iranian assets back to the regime. Pahlavi’s ask is the opposite: take a slice of those frozen funds and use them to arm the people, which will cause a major pro-America chain-reaction:

So, to clarify, Pahlavi didn't put it all together the best way, but he did enough for me to be able to craft a perfect one-paragraph response he should repeat over and over and over again everywhere he appears. Here it is:

Use the frozen regime funds to arm and support the Iranian people. This benefits both Americans and Iranians because: 

1. 1. Zero US taxpayer money spent.
   2. US gets Iranians as the boots on the ground.
   3. Iranians eliminate the terrorist regime.
   4. Brings liberty to Iranians and profits to Americans.
   5. Iranian government that is aligned with the US as opposed to America's adversaries.
   6. Forever peace and stability in the Middle East.

He is not attacking Trump. He is giving Trump an idea on how to achieve the peace he wants and at the same time get a bunch of things for Americans as well.

Pahlavi still will not spell the logistics on air, which is correct. The operational piece belongs behind closed doors with America, Israel, the Gulf and/or whoever else moves material.

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