In Munich, on the margin of the NATO conference, 200,000 people took part in the largest rally so far against the Iranian Islamic regime. Inside Iran, after the killings of 36,500 protesters and the wounding of 300,000, demonstrators now restrict themselves to synchronized yelling against the regime from their apartment windows. Outside the country, the Iranians in exile from Toronto to Los Angeles to London declared themselves, in huge demonstrations, in favor of “Death to the Dictator” and “Long Live the Shah [Reza Pahlavi].” On the margin of the Munich Security Conference, 200,000 people took part in the largest single rally so far against the Iranian regime. More on this rally can be found here: “About 200,000 gather as Iran’s exiled prince Reza Pahlavi urges US action at Munich rally,” AFP, February 14, 2026:

The exiled son of Iran’s last shah said he was ready to lead the country to a “secular democratic future” at a rally in Munich on Saturday, after US President Donald Trump said a change of power would be the “best thing”….

US-based Reza Pahlavi, who has not returned to Iran since before the 1979 Islamic revolution that ousted the monarchy, told the crowd of around 200,000 people of his supporters that he could lead a transition.

The crown prince has assured everyone that he will not be an absolute ruler like his father, but only a constitutional monarch, on the British model, more of a figurehead to serve his countrymen as a unifying symbol. And if the Iranians were to decide that they don’t want him to be that unifying symbol once a new, democratic regime is installed, he is clearly perfectly happy to step down.

Pahlavi has urged Iranians at home and abroad to continue demonstrations against the authorities, calling on them to chant slogans from their homes and rooftops at 8:00 pm (1630 GMT) Saturday and Sunday {Feb.14 and 15], to coincide with protests in Germany and elsewhere.

Chanting anti-regime slogans from their homes and rooftops will keep those protesters alive and still able to express, by chanting from on high, their hatred of the regime.

Trump had said on Friday that a change of government in Iran would be the “best thing that could happen”, as he sent a second aircraft carrier to the Middle East to ratchet up military pressure on Tehran.

And 200,000 people echoed that sentiment in Munich on February 13. Did the voices from that mighty chorus reach Trump’s ear and strengthen his resolve to give the Iranians “the best thing that could happen” to them — that is, the overthrow of the regime that has been tormenting them for 47 years?

According to the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, at least 7,008 people, mostly protesters, were killed in the crackdown, though they and other rights groups warn the toll is likely far higher.

More than 53,000 people have been arrested, it added….

The latest figures on casualties compiled by Iranian exiles from their contacts inside Iran give a figure of 36,500 protesters killed, and more than 300,000 wounded.

The 200,000 people, almost all of them Iranians in exile, showed the strength of the anti-regime forces. In total, across Europe and North America, a total of almost two million people have shown up to demonstrate against the supreme leader. The crown prince was responsible for calling the protest.

AUTHOR

Hugh Fitzgerald

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