Crown prince Reza Pahlavi has a detailed program for transitioning towards democracy

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Iran’s exiled crown prince, Reza Pahlavi, wants to lead a transitional government should the Islamic regime in Tehran eventually collapse. His vision for the country — articulated in a detailed proposal published last year — has earned the confidence of many once-skeptical Iranians, particularly within the diaspora, and should assuage those who worry that foreign military intervention could produce a failed state. 

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Until recently, Pahlavi was widely considered frivolous and unsuited to rule — a “clown prince,” according to some Western diplomats. After Iran’s failed 2022 anti-government protests, though, he partnered with the National Union for Democracy in Iran and, over the course of two years, worked with Iranian activists and academics to articulate a credible post-regime transition plan, dubbed the “Iran Prosperity Project.”  

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Published last summer, the plan brims with a technocratic seriousness that has quickly rehabilitated the prince’s image. Consisting of a 169-page policy document and several economic white papers, it is more conscientious than anything the American government, with its vast resources, produced before toppling the regimes........

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