VP Vance is right: President Trump did not say he wanted to install Prince Reza Pahlavi and that is a good thing. Iranians can choose their leader, they don’t need a US-installed puppet, and millions of them have called Pahlavi’s name.
The United States should not be in the business of installing leaders in other countries for a variety of reasons, specially because Washington has a poor track record. From Iraq and Afghanistan to Venezuela, US-installed leaders have often been corrupt, incompetent, and unpopular.
That is why any US effort to install the IRGC veteran Bagher Ghalibaf or anyone else as Iran’s new dictator would be reckless and harmful.
What Iranians are asking is not for Washington to choose their leader. They are asking the United States not to enrich their murderers.