Speaking with FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney, Arang Keshavarzian, Author and Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University, says that "there's so few good options for Iranians at this current juncture that [Reza Pahlavi] is the only concrete name that can come to the fore", adding that "important democratic figures in Iran don't have the organisational capacity to come together to build a big coalition".