Iran will not ‘automatically’ fall after Khamenei’s death, shah’s widow tells
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France I ran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei’s death is “historically significant” but will not “automatically” lead to the fall of the Iranian system, the widow of the country’s last shah told AFP in an interview yesterday.
“The passing of a man -- however central he may be to the architecture of power -- does not automatically mean the end of a system,” said Farah Pahlavi, who has lived in exile in Paris since being driven out of Iran in the 1979 r evolution.
“What will be decisive,” she said, was “the ability of the Iranian people to unite around a peaceful, orderly and sovereign transition to a state governed by the rule of law”, which she added her son Reza Pahlavi “is in the process of preparing”.
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