A major obstacle to the uprising and Iran regime-change movement

On September 22, 2026, several thousand supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran gathered at Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza across from United Nations headquarters during the opening of the UN General Assembly. The rally, which included the display of hundreds of pictures of those executed by the Iranian regime, including those murdered this year, opposed the presence of Iranian regime President Masoud Pezeshkian, called for an end to executions in Iran, and supported a democratic republic. Participants included family members of those executed by the regime and former political prisoners.

Shortly before the rally began, Reza Ebrahimi, a high-profile activist for Reza Pahlavi, entered the area designated for rally participants while posing as one of them. He then began shouting slogans calling for the death of the members of the main Iranian opposition, calling those executed by the Iranian regime terrorists.

As rally security personnel sought to escort him from the designated area, Ebrahimi struck a young MEK supporter, injuring him in the face. Police subsequently arrested Ebrahimi.

Photographs taken independently by news agencies show Ebrahimi forcefully clawing at the young protester’s face and eye area, causing severe injury. (https://shorturl.at/8SLG7 and https://shorturl.at/MNzPS)

Ebrahimi’s own social media posts show him with Reza Pahlavi and Pahlavi’s wife, while another photograph shows him with Reza Pahlavi’s sister. Ebrahimi also helped organize pro-Pahlavi events in New York and traveled to Toronto for a Pahlavi event, shortly before his attack on the UN rally.

In a post earlier that day, he taped himself only a block away from the Sept. 22, 2026, rally against Pezeshkian and against execution and says that we are going to target their rally to “hit them in their mouth and teach them a lesson.” His attack was clearly a premeditated plan, intended to intimidate the families of those executed, incite violence, and disrupt the rally against executions.

The September 22 assault did not occur in a vacuum.

In a July 2026 special report, Reuters documented multiple incidents in Europe involving violence or harassment by supporters of Reza Pahlavi. These included the alleged beating of a Kurdish freelance journalist in London, harassment and doxxing in the Netherlands, threats and coercion against a Persian restaurant owner in Vienna, and confrontations with other Iranian dissidents.

Murder of Masood Masjoody in Canada by Two Pahlavi Associates

The most serious case cited by Reuters involved Masood Masjoody, an Iranian-born academic and political activist in Canada who once supported Pahlavi but later became a critic and filed lawsuits against Pahlavi and several people associated with his movement. According to Reuters, Masjoody had publicly accused two staunch Pahlavi loyalists of plotting to kill him. In March 2026, after his body was found, Canadian authorities charged those two individuals with first-degree murder. Reuters reported that both had been identified as Pahlavi supporters. (Reuters investigation: Reza Pahlavi’s movement and violence by some supporters).

Masjoody’s remains, a math university instructor in Vancouver, Canada, were found on 6 March 2026. Mehdi Ahmadzadeh Razavi and Arezou Soltani—identified by Reuters as Reza Pahlavi supporters—were arrested and charged with first-degree murder in March 2026. Masjoody had criticized Pahlavi, sued him, and the accused. Months before his death, he alleged that the pair sought poison to kill him.

That is why, during the protests since 2019, a recurring slogan, “Down with the oppressor, be it the Shah or the Supreme Leader,” clearly showed direct opposition to both dictatorial systems.

Conclusion:

Reza Pahlavi has been engaged in reviving his father’s notorious secret police, SAVAK, which targeted critics, tortured and executed intellectuals, which eventually led to the Iranian revolution and the fall of the monarchical dictatorship. He is also boasting about his bilateral relations with the IRGC, claiming that tens of thousands of IRGC members were on his side.

The reality is that his mission over the past few months has been to target any critics among the Iranian opposition, calling them separatists, terrorists, and cult members. His network has called for the execution of activists and minorities in Iran, an act that significantly helps the Iranian regime to target and divide the opposition.

Reza Pahlavi has emerged as a major obstacle to the uprising and the regime-change movement.