Reza Pahlavi Quote

The current regime is, by any measure, the standard-bearer and global poster child for militancy, brute autocracy and corruption. If they are in fact students of my father, his ultimate act of refusing suppressive bloodshed in favor of exile should be their test.

As quoted by Deborah Solomon, New York Times: Questions for Reza Pahlavi, The New York Times, June 26, 2009.