Shah’s exiled son Reza Pahlavi accepts freedom prize for Iranian people amid backlash

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Reza Pahlavi accepts Frankfurt freedom prize for Iranians amid backlash over legitimacy and political controversy. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Reza Pahlavi, son of Iran’s last shah, speaks before receiving the 2026 Freedom Prize from the Friedrich Naumann Foundation.

FRANKFURT – The son of the ousted shah of Iran received on Nov 7 a “Freedom Prize” in Frankfurt awarded to the Iranian people in a ceremony that critics said was illegitimate.

Greeted by thousands of demonstrators chanting their support and waving pre-revolutionary Iranian flags, Reza Pahlavi took receipt of the prize awarded by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, an activist group close to the liberal FDP party.

Iran “is a country not waiting to be taught democracy”, Pahlavi said at St Paul’s Church, famous for hosting Germany’s first-ever elected Parliament in 1848-1849. “This is a country being prevented from practising it.”

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