The heir of Iran's deposed monarchy predicted Wednesday that the clerical regime will collapse within months and urged Western powers not to negotiate with it.
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Reza Pahlavi said that major
protests which erupted in November and again this month, after the accidental downing of a Ukrainian passenger jet, reminded him of the uprising that ousted his father in early 1979.
The 59-year-old heir to the Peacock Throne, who has not been to
Iran since he was a teenager, cited as evidence what he called an easing of fear among
protesters and the growing distancing of self-described reformists from the Islamic regime.