As America celebrates 250, we must help Iran celebrate another 2500

Reza Pahlavi, Iranian crown prince in exile

Over the past several weeks, I have been contemplating my own life growing up in Iran in the context of the daily reports of protests by the Iranian people – and of the mass murders by the regime of the people.

While I have suffered a lot in, and because of, the Islamic Republic – the past two months have been among the hardest period in my life. The last week in December, the Iranian people bravely started protesting in hundreds of cities across Iran.