Iran is ‘betrayed’ by Donald Trump’s peace deal and it is ‘abhorrent’ the fate of the people is ‘nowhere in the discussions’, Tehran’s exiled Crown Prince has said.
Reza Pahlavi, who is the son of Iran’s last Shah, who was overthrown in the 1979 Islamic Revolution said that the tens of thousands of Iranians who were killed in January for demonstrating against the regime had ‘not died for a nuclear deal or the Strait of Hormuz’.
The 65-year-old also took aim at Sir Keir Starmer for ‘validating and rewarding blackmail’ after the PM offered to lift British sanctions on the theocratic dictatorship following the agreement.
Pahlavi, who is seen by many as the unofficial leader of the opposition, warned Britain and said he still believes the regime will fall and that the peace plan will fail as it is ‘not tenable’.
He said this in London after Donald Trump signed a deeply controversial Memorandum of Understanding in Versailles on Wednesday to end the conflict.
Under the terms, Tehran will receive $300billion (£227billion) in reparations as well as sanctions relief provided it reopens the Strait, disposes of its enriched uranium and commits to not developing nuclear weapons.
New Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei yesterday released a statement saying he had ‘issued the permission’ to sign the deal.
But he said the terms show that ‘negotiations that will be held in the future will not mean accepting the enemy’s point of view’.
He believed the US president made the deal ‘out of desperation’.
Iran’s president Masoud Pezeshkian boasted the document is ‘a reflection of the voice of a nation that did not trade its dignity and independence for any threat or pressure’.
Trump started the war in February with Israel after promising Iranian protesters he would ‘come to their rescue’.
