Ali Karimi, the former player of the Iranian national football team and one of the critics of the Islamic Republic, called the critics of the Pahlavi family and Prince Reza Pahlavi the beneficiaries of the Islamic Republic in an Instagram interview

In an interview with Mojtabi Pourbakhsh, Mr. Karimi said: "Anyone who criticizes the Pahlavi family or Prince Reza Pahlavi, in my opinion, has no more than two things: either he is a beneficiary of the Islamic Republic, or he was the cause of the establishment of the Islamic Republic."

Mr. Karimi continued to emphasize: "There is no third option"/Radio Farda