Iran’s exiled crown prince criticizes Trump’s ‘half-baked’ Iran strategy (with Reza Pahlavi) | The Conversation
The Playbook Podcast
POLITICO
3.9 • 699 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The science is clear. Vaping saves lives and youth vaping is at historic lows. |
| 0:06.0 | Now, acting FDA Commissioner Diamantis must fix the broken system. |
| 0:11.0 | Establish predictable scientific guidelines for PMTA review, enforce against illicit products that fail those standards, |
| 0:18.0 | and protect adult Americans relying on flavored vapes to quit smoking. |
| 0:22.6 | FDA policy must change to catch up to its own data. |
| 0:25.6 | Learn more at vapor technology.org. |
| 0:28.6 | This is not just about the national security of the United States or stability in the world. |
| 0:33.6 | It's about a liberation of a nation that, unlike this regime, that has been chanting |
| 0:39.1 | death to America from its inception, we are a nation that once free would like to be the best |
| 0:44.4 | partners and allies to the regional partners that we have in the Arab countries and, of course, Israel, |
| 0:49.9 | but also the United States. |
| 0:56.4 | Hello, hello, and welcome to The Conversation. |
| 0:59.3 | I'm Dasha Burns, and every week on this show, |
| 1:01.9 | I talk to the most compelling and sometimes unexpected power players in Washington and beyond. |
| 1:07.0 | And this week, I sat down with exiled crown prince of Iran, Reza Pahl Palavi during a live taping of our show at Politico's Security Summit. |
| 1:15.7 | Palavi is the eldest son of the last Shah of Iran. |
| 1:18.9 | He's been in exile since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which means that in this moment, he's watching the United States current war in Iran unfold from afar, and he's |
| 1:29.0 | positioned himself as one of the key leaders of the Iranian opposition, aiming for a transition |
| 1:34.0 | to a secular, democratic rule. So in our chat, we talked about what that transition might look |
| 1:39.6 | like for Iran, and I got his assessment of the Trump administration's handling of the war so far. But before we |
| 1:45.5 | get into the interview, a quick reminder that we're coming up on the one-year anniversary of the |
| 1:50.1 | conversation. And I want to hear from you if you have any questions about this moment in politics |
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