Son of Iran's ousted shah takes controversial prize
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The son of the ousted shah of Iran on Saturday received a "Freedom Prize" in Frankfurt awarded to the Iranian people in a ceremony that critics said was illegitimate. Some 18,000…
The son of the ousted shah of Iran on Saturday received a "Freedom Prize" in Frankfurt awarded to the Iranian people in a ceremony that critics said was illegitimate.
Some 18,000 demonstrators, many chanting support and waving pre-revolutionary Iranian flags, greeted Reza Pahlavi as he turned up in the German city to be handed the honour, according to a police estimate.
The prize was awarded by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, an activist group close to Germany's liberal FDP party.
Iran "is a country not waiting to be taught democracy, this is a country being prevented from practising it", Pahlavi said at St Paul's Church, famous for hosting Germany's first-ever elected parliament in 1848-1849.
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