Janatan Sayeh

And of course, his father had to flee the country following the 1979 revolution that was for the most part referred to as a quote-unquote peaceful revolution because of his father's reluctance to crack down on protesters en masse.

And that is why Iranians now really think fondly of those times.

They think about the social freedoms they had.

They think about the strong economy that they had.

But it is really critical for us to see that this is not only nostalgia.

It is the past that could be used as a springboard for the future.

But that said, the crown prince and all Iranians are really aligned on one key feature, which is that following

the collapse of the Islamic Republic.

And once the power vacuum is really addressed, it's about holding elections for Iranians to decide what form of governance they want, if it's a republic or a monarchy or something in between.

So getting into the details a little bit, there are a few factors that you want to ensure that are going to be staying in place once the regime collapses.

Number one, you want to ensure that you have national unity because you don't want to balkanize Iran.

You don't want separatist group taking place.

And you want to ensure that the person that's leading this transition is able to really unify these different groups.

That's one aspect.

The other aspect, you want to ensure that you can get sanctions relief so the economy can actually revive.

And these two pillars are really essential for any transition movement.

And that's what really the Crown Prince has been working on.

The other aspect is really having a script, a manual, if you will, of what would happen exactly afterwards.

So again, shortly after, there's going to be realistically some chaos because you're addressing such an Islamist regime that, again, it's very hyper-localized.

It is really embedded throughout other parts of the Islamist society, unfortunately.