“The Islamic Republic has reached its end and is in the process of collapsing. Khamenei, like a frightened rat, has gone into hiding underground and has lost control of the situation. What has begun is irreversible. The future is bright, and together, we will pass through this sharp turn in history. In these difficult days, my heart is with all the defenseless citizens who have been harmed and have fallen victim to Khamenei’s warmongering and delusions. For years, I have tried to prevent our homeland from being consumed by the fire of war. The end of the Islamic Republic is the end of its 46-year war against the Iranian nation,” writes Reza Pahlavi, son of the Shah, who was deposed in the 1979 Iranian revolution in a lengthy tweet. Pahlavi lives in Greenwich, Connecticut.

“The regime’s apparatus of repression is falling apart. All it takes now is a nationwide uprising to put an end to this nightmare once and for all. Now is the time to rise; the time to reclaim Iran,” Pahlavi continued and yeah, he probably tweeted this from Greenwich. Not from anywhere in Iran.

“Let us all come forward – from Bandar Abbas to Bandar Anzali, from Shiraz to Isfahan, from Tabriz to Zahedan, from Mashhad to Ahvaz, from Shahr-e Kord to Kermanshah – and bring about the end of this regime. Do not fear the day after the fall of the Islamic Republic. Iran will not descend into civil war or instability. We have a plan for Iran’s future and its flourishing. We are prepared for the first hundred days after the fall, for the transitional period, and for the establishment of a national and democratic government – by the Iranian people and for the Iranian people,” and again, who’s “we”?

Now it’d be one thing if he was making it clear he’s not interested in being re-coronated buuuuuut he actually writes “A free and flourishing Iran lies ahead of us. May we be together soon.” As in as soon as the coast is clear and he feels like he can fly to Tehran to campaign for absolute monarch.