On April 26, 2026, an audio message emerged from inside Hormozgan Prison that cut through the noise of Iran’s opposition politics with unusual force. The speaker was Manouchehr Bakhtyari, father of Pouya Bakhtyari, one of the young men killed by security forces during the bloody November 2019 Aban uprising. Manouchehr is not a critic from the left, not a republican intellectual, not a foreign-based analyst with an agenda. He is a self-identified monarchist and political prisoner, a man who has sacrificed much for a cause he believes in. And he addressed his message directly to Reza Pahlavi.
From Supporters to Critics: Manouchehr…
On April 26, 2026, an audio message emerged from inside Hormozgan Prison that cut through the noise of Iran’s opposition politics with unusual force. The speaker was Manouchehr Bakhtyari, father of Pouya Bakhtyari, one of the young men killed by security forces during the bloody November 2019 Aban uprising. Manouchehr is not a critic from the left, not a republican intellectual, not a foreign-based analyst with an agenda. He is a self-identified monarchist and political prisoner, a man who has sacrificed much for a cause he believes in. And he addressed his message directly to Reza Pahlavi.