April 26 – Iran’s Crown Prince, Reza Pahlavi called on Western governments to create a “strike fund” to support the nationwide labor protests in Iran and to paralyze its current government.
Pahlavi, who campaigns for regime change in Iran, passed the comment during an interview with online newspaper POLITICO.
The Prince is also set to speak at an event hosted by the National Union for Democracy in Iran, which will unveil a roadmap designed to build an economy capable of meeting Iran’s socioeconomic needs in the event of a regime change.
Women in Iran are increasingly choosing not to wear hijabs in public, despite mandatory veiling laws which include severe financial penalties and prison terms for offenders, according to NBC journalist Richard Engel.
Engel, who appears to have visited Iran in recent weeks, said at least one third of the women he observed in the Islamic Republic were openly ignoring signs in restaurants and cafes to wear Islamic dress and there appeared to be no enforcement of the dress code.
Iran’s government sees the hijab as a central policy designed to control the country’s female population and have engaged in violent crackdowns on women who flout the legislation in the past. The development follows the government’s decision not to implement its controversial Chastity Bill, fearing a nationwide backlash against the draconian measures.
And US President Donald Trump has been ordered by a judge to reinstate thousands of employees at the government-funded radio broadcast services of Voice of America, Radio Free Asia and Middle East Broadcasting Networks.
The judgment follows Trump’s efforts to shut down the news agencies, after he called them “radical” and “leftist” despite often critical coverage of regimes such as Iran.
US District Judge Royce Lamberth added that Congress had funded and authorized the broadcasts to provide an “accurate, objective, and comprehensive” source of news in other nations.
