Iran's Crown Prince calls for REVOLUTION with direct instructions to overthrow Ayatollah

Protests have been staged across Iran this week over soaring inflation, leaving several people dead.

Deadly confrontations between demonstrators and security forces have focused in the western provinces of Lorestan and Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari.

State-affiliated media and rights groups have reported at least six deaths since Wednesday.

Human rights organisations have warned that authorities are intensifying their violent response to the growing movement being made against Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Mr Pahlavi wrote to X: "My fellow compatriots, today, I want to share with you a clearer picture of what is necessary to bring down this regime.

"My words are especially directed at the people of Tehran, who, through their courage, have launched the latest phase of the national uprising.

"The regime is desperately trying to prevent people from gathering in public now because it knows that Iranians in the streets of Tehran and other major cities will quickly bring about its collapse.

"To overcome the regime’s repression, there is one path before us: a simultaneous, million-strong presence throughout the city, coupled with traffic blockages on key routes and main roads.

"To achieve this, we must first overcome our fear and understand that if we seize the streets, the regime will quickly lose both the capacity and the will to repress."

Mr Pahlavi called on Iranians to move "hand in hand" with others toward the central streets of Tehran.

"I say with confidence that once a flood of millions takes shape, the regime’s forces of repression will not be able to stand their ground," he added.

Mr Pahlavi yesterday thanked Donald Trump after the US President said he would "rescue" protesters in Iran if security forces fire at them.

President Trump said the US were "locked and loaded and ready to go".

In response, Mr Pahlavi wrote to X: "President Trump, thank you for your strong leadership and support of my compatriots.

"This warning you have issued to the criminal leaders of the Islamic Republic gives my people greater strength and hope—hope that, at last, a President of the United States is standing firmly by their side.

"As they risk their lives to end this regime’s 46 year reign of chaos and terror, they send me with a responsibility and a message: to seek the relationship Iran once had with America that brought peace and prosperity to the Middle East."

However, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Iran will "not yield to the enemy" in his apparent response to President Trump's threat.

"God willing and by divine grace, we will bring the enemy to its knees," he said.

This week's protests in Iran are the biggest in three years, since nationwide demonstrations triggered by the death of a young woman in custody in late 2022 paralysed Iran for weeks, with human rights groups reporting hundreds killed.

During the latest unrest, the elected President Masoud Pezeshkian has pledged dialogue with protest leaders over the cost-of-living crisis, even as rights groups said security forces had fired on demonstrators.

Speaking on Thursday, Mr Pezeshkian acknowledged that failings by the authorities were behind the crisis.

"We are to blame... Do not look for America or anyone else to blame. We must serve properly so that people are satisfied with us.... It is us who have to find a solution to these problems," he said.

Mr Pezeshkian is attempting a programme of economic liberalisation, but one of its measures, deregulating some currency exchange, has contributed to a sharp decline in the value of Iran's rial on the unofficial market.

The sliding currency has compounded inflation, which has hovered above 36 per cent since March, according to official estimates.