While Pahlavi’s supporters see him as a unifier, several attempts he was involved in to unite the long-divided opposition collapsed. Pahlavi told Reuters. In addition, two Pahlavi supporters were charged in March in Canada with the murder of a Pahlavi critic. Addressing violence by his supporters, Pahlavi told Reuters: “I condemn it. In February, several self-identified Pahlavi supporters confronted Mehdi Shahparveri, the owner of a Persian restaurant in Vienna, demanding that he display the pre-revolution flag.