Princess Yasmine Pahlavi's Special Interview: A Personal Account of Life, Iran and the Struggle, August 28, 2026

The Communications and Media Office of Prince Reza Pahlavi published, in several parts, a special interview in which Tina Ghazimorad, the office's director, speaks with Princess Yasmine Pahlavi, a personal account of her life, Iran's children, the Javidnaman and the future of a free Iran. Excerpts follow.

Princess Yasmine Pahlavi says that what she writes on social media is what she truly believes, without expecting everyone to agree with her or to like what she says.

She speaks of an independence that has mattered to her since her teens: speaking her own mind, not what others expect to hear. She says Prince Reza Pahlavi too has never told her what to say or not to say.

But Princess Yasmine Pahlavi's main audience today is a new generation of Iranians. A generation that, in her words, has changed many equations, and for whom today's struggle is, above all, about their future.

Watch Princess Yasmine Pahlavi's full interview on the Iran National Television YouTube channel.

In a special interview with Tina Ghazimorad, director of the Communications and Media Office of Prince Reza Pahlavi, Princess Yasmine Pahlavi speaks of two decades of effort to help Iranian children receive treatment at specialist centres in Minnesota. In this process, once the doctors had given their approval, the difficult path began: from following up medical files and obtaining visas, to bringing the children from various villages across Iran, at times via Turkey or Dubai, and their long stays, together with a father or mother, for surgery and continued treatment.

Each of these children was, for her, a precious bond with Iran. These efforts stopped after September 11, when issuing visas to Iranians became harder, but their message remains: “We were not afraid that there might not be enough money or resources; we went forward and took small but highly effective steps.”

Princess Yasmine Pahlavi speaks of the special place Majidreza Rahnavard holds in her heart. A young man who, she believes, had a message for Iran's future even in the last moments of his life.

Majidreza, with his eyes closed, as they were taking him to be executed, asked that no one mourn for him and that people rejoice at his grave. Princess Yasmine Pahlavi says this last wish changed many people's view of mourning. The words of a young man who, even on the threshold of death, did not submit to a government that has for decades tried to keep Iran and Iranians in grief and sorrow.

She calls Majidreza “ahead of his time” and a “pioneer”, and says: “Majidreza had a dream, like Martin Luther King.” A dream of a different Iran; and the Lion and Sun that was inscribed on Majidreza's body, in Princess Yasmine Pahlavi's belief, went beyond a symbol and became the emblem of a revolution of which he was one of the pioneers.

In a special interview with Tina Ghazimorad, director of the Communications and Media Office of Prince Reza Pahlavi, Princess Yasmine Pahlavi speaks of the deep shock of January and the collective trauma of the crackdown on the people: of images of young people's bodies in black bags, and of mothers and fathers calling out the names of their missing children.

She says that after that, life seemed to stop and nothing but Iran mattered any more. With the internet cut and the country plunged into darkness, families were left without news of their loved ones; many were hunted or wounded and, with no money or support, had no way to save themselves.

According to Princess Yasmine Pahlavi, in those days even “the ticking of the clock” had taken on a different meaning for the people inside Iran, and Iranians abroad were constantly searching for a way to help and rescue their compatriots.

She sees this experience as a collective trauma that will never be forgotten, and says: “Perhaps only after the Islamic Republic is completely destroyed will we be able to breathe.”

“The children of Minab are children of Iran; we will not wait for the Islamic Republic to tell us which of Iran's children matter most.”

Recalling the children of Minab who lost their lives, Princess Yasmine Pahlavi says in a special interview that their images “break every human heart”. Children who, like those who lost their lives in the protests of 2017–18, in November 2019 and on the Ukrainian airliner, are children of Iran, and the grief for each of them is the grief of all of us.

Criticising the Islamic Republic's propaganda exploitation of those who have lost their lives, she says the regime always tries to decide who is seen, for whom mourning is allowed, and which disaster's victims serve the government's narrative. Whereas “no mother is any different from another mother”, and seeking justice is the right of all families who have lost their loved ones.

In part of her special interview with Tina Ghazimorad, director of the Communications and Media Office of Prince Reza Pahlavi, Princess Yasmine Pahlavi speaks of the importance of her children's independence and right to choose, and of how her daughters worked from the age of fifteen to learn responsibility and what it means to build one's own life.

She stresses that she wanted her daughters, if one day they became ready to work alongside their father for Iran, to take this path through their own conscious choice and at an older age, rather than having it imposed on them from childhood.

Watch Princess Yasmine Pahlavi's full interview on the Iran National Television YouTube channel.

“How do you see your role on the day after Iran's liberation?”

In a special interview with Tina Ghazimorad, director of the Communications and Media Office of Prince Reza Pahlavi, Princess Yasmine Pahlavi, asked about the role she sees for herself on the day after Iran's liberation, says that being a prince's wife should not necessarily create a special position for her; but she wants, as far as she is able, to be the voice of the Iranian people.

In her view, the measure by which a society is known and judged is how it treats its most vulnerable citizens. For that reason she wants to use her professional experience to help create institutions and centres that support these people. A role based not on status but on service, to establish fairness and justice in a free Iran.

The first image of a free Iran's future that comes to Princess Yasmine Pahlavi's mind comes from old videos of Iran: young people walking the streets with books in hand, going to university, sitting in cafés and parks, smiles on their lips.

In a special interview with Tina Ghazimorad, director of the Communications and Media Office of Prince Reza Pahlavi, she says the joy and lightness of those young people's faces has deeply affected her, and she hopes the Iranian people will once again come out of darkness, crisis and anxiety.

In a special interview, Princess Yasmine Pahlavi says the desire to be seen and heard is part of human nature. She regards the trust of those who share their pain and hardships with her as a great honour, and says she learns from their courage, resilience and experiences.

Recalling the February 14 gathering, she says that even a single moment of eye contact can create a deep bond between people: “Just one second is enough to give someone energy; and at the same time, you receive energy from them too.”

In a special interview with Tina Ghazimorad, director of the Communications and Media Office of Prince Reza Pahlavi, Princess Yasmine Pahlavi speaks of decades of injustice, pressure, slander and wrongdoing against the Pahlavi family; behaviour that, having witnessed its continuation after joining this family, was very painful for her.

Referring to the growing appreciation of the Iranian people for Reza Shah the Great, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi and Prince Reza Pahlavi, she recounts her experience of watching the documentary “Aryamehr”: “I could not watch even ten minutes of it without crying.”

What moved her most was the purity and absence of bitterness in Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi's gaze and words, despite everything that had been done to him; the very quality that, Princess Yasmine Pahlavi says, she has also seen in Empress Farah Pahlavi and Prince Reza Pahlavi.