Trump's weaknesses have become so clear - anyone can take advantage |
When protestors took to the streets across Iran, Reza Pahlavi – the son of the last Shah and exiled crown prince – knew what to do. He took to the airways, particularly of Donald Trump’s favourite, Fox News, and he sung the US President’s praises.
Iranians, he said, loved Trump. The people know how different he is to Barack Obama and Joe Biden. They’re inspired by him. Pahlavi said that the people of Iran are spontaneously naming streets after Trump.
That flattery duly delivered, Pahlavi got to the core of his message: Donald Trump should help topple the Iranian regime, and then once that is done, Pahlavi himself, as the son of the deposed Shah, would be available to offer his services administering an interim government.
In reality, 65-year-old Pahlavi has lived in Washington DC for most of his life, and has not been in Iran for almost 50 years. Given he fled as a teenager, he has no experience ruling or administering a nation and his claim to legitimacy relies on reinstating the tyrannical rule of the deposed Shah.
But Pahlavi knows the Trump playbook, and that is what matters. Trump doesn’t like to trouble himself........