Prince Reza Pahlavi said at the ceremony of receiving the 2026 Freedom Prize of the "Friedrich Neumann" Foundation on behalf of the Iranian people: "No Iranian wants to drop bombs on his country, and I am against these two-sided solutions, meaning war or reconciliation."

Prince Reza Pahlavi said at the ceremony of receiving the 2026 Freedom Prize of the "Friedrich Neumann" Foundation on behalf of the Iranian people: "No Iranian wants to drop bombs on his country, and I am against these two-sided solutions, meaning war or reconciliation."

Prince Reza Pahlavi added: "Instead of reconciliation or war, I have always defended the third way, which is based on exerting maximum pressure on the Islamic Republic and at the same time providing maximum support to the Iranian people." However, year after year, the world chose the policy of appeasement."