Prince Reza Pahlavi on Saturday, November 7 at the ceremony of receiving the "Freedom 2026" award of the Friedrich Neumann Foundation at St. Paul's Church in Frankfurt, which was awarded to him on behalf of the people of Iran, he said in reference to the international policy towards the Islamic Republic, first I took a position against the Islamic Republic: "In recent years I have taken a public policy towards the Islamic Republic. of reconciliation, who gave money and legitimacy to this regime, while the regime imprisoned and killed our people at the same time, "At the same time, I have always taken a position against war, because no one in Iran wants to see a bomb fall on their country," he added: "Instead, I argued for a third way. This means exerting maximum pressure on the regime, at the same time as providing maximum support and support to the Iranian people. But year after year, the world chose the policy of appeasement, and in the same way the people rose up in Iran in 2009, 2017, 2019 and 2022, and the regime's response each time was only more repression."