Iran, Pegah Moshir Pour: “For now no regime change, with Mojtaba Khamenei it will get worse”

Brussels, 5 Mar. (LaPresse) – “I do not foresee an imminent regime change, unfortunately. The regime change will essentially be even more rigid and therefore, paradoxically, it will get worse.” This was stated to LaPresse by human rights activist and writer Pegah Moshir Pour, born in Iran and raised in Italy. “One might also say: how can it get worse, more than this? Mojtaba, the second-born son of Ali Khamenei, is a person who has always acted in the shadows, a very emblematic and mysterious figure. He is called ‘the British millionaire’ because, regarding the elite children who have studied at the best universities in Europe and the United States, they have lives outside Iran very far from what the regime wants to impose on ordinary people’s lives,” the activist emphasizes. “Ali Khamenei wanted his son to become Supreme Leader, but the Shiite clergy did not want it. Firstly, because he is not an ayatollah, he does not have the religious rank to become one, just as he did when he was nominated to become Supreme Leader. Secondly, because otherwise it could seem like a monarchical hierarchy, with a passage from father to son, contrary to the propaganda the regime had built after the 1979 war. Now, however, it is accepted, because we are in a state of emergency. It is probably also the choice of the name, the continuity of what was there, only that it will become even worse.”