"This decision was not about silencing me. This was about silencing the Iranian people," Pahlavi wrote on X/Twitter.

Now 63, Pahlavi left Iran at age 17 for military school in the United States just before his cancer-stricken father, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, relinquished the throne on Jan. 16, 1979.

Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, Shah of Iran ... II after an Anglo-Soviet invasion forced the abdication of his father, Reza Shah. Mohammad Reza Shah's rule oversaw the nationalization of the ...