The Ambition of the Pahlavi Dynasty: Former Rulers Who Want to Change Iran's Islamic State Back to a Monarchy

JAKARTA - There is no doubt that the Pahlavi Dynasty existed to build Iran. The monarchy government is considered to have brought Iran to a modern country from 1925-1979. However, the Pahlavi clan's power is considered to be very harmful.

The monarchy's leadership is known to be repressive and corrupt. They only care about the fate of their group, not the majority of the Iranian people. The Iranian people are angry. The ulama also lead the resistance and the Iranian Revolution is rolling. Iran became an Islamic State. However, the Pahlevi breed was not willing and opposed it.

The leadership of the Pahlavi Dynasty was once considered a hope by all Iranians. The monarchy's leadership was seen as able to bring Iran to rapid development - bring modernization to industrialization. The most well-known teaching is Iran's courage to ally with the United States (US) and Israel.

The cooperation brought great benefits from the era of Reza Shah's power in 1925-1941 to Mohammad Reza Pahlevi from 1941-1979. Even though Iran was later ostracized by other Middle Eastern countries who hated Israel.

Ayatollah Khomeini meets with the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat, shortly after the Iranian Revolution. (Wikimedia Commons)

The Iranian leader does not care. The owner of the power is only concerned with the development of Iran. The most well-known use is the White Revolution. The teachings that make the government want to advance agrarian reform, eradicate illiteracy, and raise the status of women.

The program was fully supported by the US and Israel. However, this does not mean that the Pahlavi Dynasty's power is smooth. They run their power with an iron hand. It is also corrupt. Anyone who criticizes the government will be beaten.

Not to mention, the Pahlavi leadership actually made the rich and poor more distant. Their policies are believed to only care about the fate of their group, the wealthy. The people's desire for life is number one.

This condition makes all the people of Iran move. Pahlavi is considered a western puppet. The ulama also took command of the protests so that many of them were criminalized. The most well-known cleric is Ayatollah Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini.

The resistance brought the Iranian revolution in 1979. Confrontations with the security forces almost happened every day. The peak was when all the Iranian people managed to overthrow the Pahlevi Dynasty in the same year.

The Pahlavi breed immediately fled to Panama. As a result, the ulama took control. At its peak, the monarchy's system of government was changed to the Islamic Republic of Iran. A country that adopts a system of government after Islamic law.

"I must say that this traitor Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, has gone, has flown, after robbing all of us. He has robbed the country and built cemeteries. Our entire economic structure is broken. Iran must work hard and long, to rebuild. "

"They thought they had given land to farmers, but in fact they destroyed our agriculture, so now we are completely dependent on foreign countries. Mohammad Reza has made this so that we are dependent on the US and Israel. Everything he has done has severely damaged our country so that it takes 20 years to repair," Khomeini said, as written by Nasir Tamara in the book Iran Revolution (2017).

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The existence of Khomeini and the Islamic State of Iran as a new force in the world. Khomeini brought Iran to turn against the US and Israel in his agenda to dismantle the Middle East.

The opposition was evident from Khomeini's courage to give nicknames to the US and Israel. The US is called The Great Satan and Israel as The Little Satan. However, Khomeini-style propaganda did not make the Pahlavi family think that the Islamic state system was strong.

The son of Mohammad Rezi Pahlevi, Cyrus Reza Pahlevi, actually considers that the Islamic state system is unable to make the Iranian people happy in 1989 or towards the 10th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution. He tried to predict that in the future the Iranian people would compare life before and after the revolution.

Reza believes that people's lives in the monarchy era are much more prosperous. He considers his father's power to be full of stains. Iranian people are against his father. However, Reza considers that Iranian people do not want to completely replace the regime and the system of government into an Islamic state.

The large demonstrations that have been taking place in Iran since late December 2025, with demands for the resignation of the current ruling regime led by Ayatollah Ali Khameini. (Anadolu)

The last crown prince of the Iranian kingdom believes that one day the Iranian people will oppose the government. The Iranian people are considered to miss the days under the monarchy. The Iranian people themselves question the welfare and freedom under the flag of the Islamic State of Iran.

This condition will bring the Pahlavi family back to re-establish the monarchy in Iran. Of course with the help of countries that support the monarchy in Iran: the US and Israel.

"Most people who opposed the father's (Syah Iran) government actually did not want a change of the entire regime. They wanted political reform, liberalization, and the functioning of the constitution. Only in the last months everything fell apart. The situation quickly turned into a revolution. They did not want to change the entire system. "

"I will restore the direction towards progress. This time we must remember the importance of institutional factors. It seems that it is still too far away. No, it will not be long. The Khomeini regime is facing destruction. It has lost legitimacy, so what we see is a political struggle among the rulers. In fact, they are starting to kill their own people," said Reza as quoted by Tempo magazine in its report titled Khomeini will be Destroyed (1989).