Unbelievable: Nora O’Donnell Suggests That Reza Pahlavi Is Responsible for Iranians Dying in Protests

Uh, wut?

We live in the most topsy-turvy moral universe imaginable. As Democrats and the media have put into overdrive a campaign to ensure that rapists, murderers, and sex traffickers remain on the streets of America, we are seeing many of the same people opposing Iranians who are trying to free themselves from an Islamist terrorist regime that hangs people from cranes for being gay and that murders young women for refusing to wear hijabs. 

Millions of Iranians are standing up to the Ayatollah’s regime, which also happens to be the number one supporter of terrorism in the world, and CBS’s Norah O’Donnell has decided that the person most responsible for the deaths of the protesters is…Reza Pahlavi, the crown prince of Iran. 

CBS’s Norah O’Donnell asks Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi is he bears responsibility for getting Iranian civilians murdered by the Islamic regime of Iran with his calls to protest:
“And as you are urging people to protest and go to the streets, the death toll is rising in… pic.twitter.com/QedMX4kHVy

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 12, 2026

CBS’s Norah O’Donnell asks Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi is he bears responsibility for getting Iranian civilians murdered by the Islamic regime of Iran with his calls to protest:”And as you are urging people to protest and go to the streets, the death toll is rising in Iran. This violent crackdown continues just as it has in past attempted revolutions. I mean, is it responsible to be sending citizens in Iran to their deaths? Do you bear some responsibility?”

Make it make sense. Try. Get back to me when you figure out a way. 

It is, however, consistent with the desire of pro-Hamas protesters to preserve the Iranian regime, since it is that regime above all that has been funding the worst terrorists in the Middle East with the goal of killing Israelis. 

It’s another Python sketch https://t.co/Ji5pzDiPDD

— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) January 11, 2026

The Houthis, Hamas, Hizbollah…all funded by Iran, which helped plot the October 7th attacks. No wonder the left is silent about the protests in Iran, at least when they are not outright supporting the regime. 

I encourage you to read Ed’s piece from yesterday about why Pravda and the left have abandoned Iranians to the Ayatollah. He quotes from a Free Press piece that captures a fundamental reality:

For far too many progressives and leftists, their founding commitment is not to some principle or aspiration for the world. It is to believing that their own countries and societies are at the root of profound evil. This creates in their minds a simple demonology: Anybody who is on “our side” must be bad, and anybody who is on the “other side” is presumptively good. As Orwell said about some of the intellectuals of his day, their “real though unacknowledged motive appears to be hatred of Western democracy and admiration for totalitarianism.”

The Democrats have been all over regime change when it suits their purposes. The Obama administration bombed Libya until the regime fell, and the country has become a failed state with actual slave markets since then. Hillary Clinton laughed about it. 

“We Came, We Saw, He Died.” — Hillary Clinton pic.twitter.com/PeVRk2peiA

— WarNuse (@WarNuse) June 27, 2025

The Obama administration sparked the Syrian civil war, creating yet another humanitarian crisis. Both countries, the entire Middle East, and Europe all all much worse off than before. 

It’s not regime change that bothers these people. It is making the world a better place. 

The main reason people in Iran are rising up is because Trump exposed the regime’s vulnerabilities and destroyed its facade of strength by decisively taking out its nuclear facilities.

You put out a statement opposing this when Trump did it.

You need to apologize. https://t.co/DvvQg8zAbR pic.twitter.com/raBGzUy0EZ

— Bad Hombre (@Badhombre) January 11, 2026

If the current Iranian regime falls, it will be replaced by a secular regime aligned with the West. This would be a tragedy for the left, which, through Obama and Biden, has been funded by the West to the tune of billions of direct cash transfers. Cash. As in pallets of US dollars flown in military aircraft overseas. 

‘HOW CAN YOU BE SILENT?’ An Iranian protester in Los Angeles blasts Democrats for staying quiet as Iran remains under a digital blackout and the death toll rises:

“I used to be a Democrat. I stood by you guys because you promised us liberty, justice, diversity. This is not… pic.twitter.com/VnpSS43UIK

— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 12, 2026

The closest I have seen for a Democrat to denounce Iran shooting thousands of protesters in the streets is Ken Martin, the f’ing CHAIR of the Democratic Party saying that Donald Trump is doing the same thing. 

In Iran, protesters are risking death fighting for freedom from a brutal Islamic terrorist regime.

In Minneapolis, Radical Left lunatics and purple-haired schizos are melting down over law enforcement.

The head of the Democrat Party thinks they are the same. https://t.co/J1wPAwD0HG

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) January 11, 2026

Iran: almost as bad as Orange Man. I guess you could call that criticism of a kind. 

The moral inversion of reality we see in Pravda is something I would never have predicted 20 years ago. As awful as I thought the media was then, something completely broke within them during the Obama administration. 

Fetterman breaks with Democrats to back Trump taking military action in Iran if necessary – Of all the people I thought would simply follow like sheep, he was the last I would have guessed to have more common sense than 98% of DEMS pic.twitter.com/R0qCb6QvHm

— OPOA (@curtcrookcoxne1) January 12, 2026

And here is the result. 

I don’t know if Reza Pahlavi would be the ideal leader of Iran post-revolution, but it’s clear that he is the person around whom the protesters are coalescing for the moment. If he can pull together an interim government to start rebuilding the country, it would be a darn sight better than what they have now. 

The vast majority of Iranians don’t want to live under the Islamist regime. Islam, as a dominant religion in Iran, has been collapsing due to its association with the regime. 

Blaming Pahlavi for the revolution going on is absurd. Yet there it is. 

Editor’s Note: Thanks to President Trump and his administration’s bold leadership, the Left’s attempted radicalization of American culture has stalled – for now.

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