"To date, no opposition leader has managed to forge the kind of broad-based coalition needed to unify the fragmented opposition landscape," Ali Vaez, Iran Project Director at International Crisis Group, told AFP. Inside Iran, opposition figures have been repressed and imprisoned, as was the case with jailed 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi. His supporters have attacked other opposition figures online and clashed with the spectrum of ethnic minority opposition groups, who experts say wouldn't accept Pahlavi. - 'Somebody from within' -Asked on Tuesday about Pahlavi, Trump was tepid. "It would seem to me that somebody from within (Iran) maybe would be more appropriate" than Pahlavi, Trump said.

Source: Bangkok Post March 05, 2026 00:51 UTC