WASHINGTON, June 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Iran's former Crown Prince, Reza Pahlavi, a leading advocate of a campaign for civil disobedience against the clerical regime, will call for a secular, parliamentary, and democratic political system in Iran at a National Press Club Newsmaker press conference at 10 a.m. on Monday, June 22, in the Zenger Room, 13th Floor, National Press Building, 529 14th St., N.W., Washington, DC.

Pahlavi will analyze the unprecedented threat the election aftermath poses to Iran's ruling clerics. He says it reflects a fundamental challenge by the Iranian people to the Islamic regime as a whole.

At the Newsmaker, Pahlavi, 48, will address striking parallels to the

1979 political turmoil leading to the advent of the Islamic Republic. He will call upon Western leaders to pursue a dual-track approach that is not exclusively focused on dialogue with the regime, and its nuclear program, but also directly engages the Iranian people in support of their quest for human and political rights.

Since the 1979 establishment of the clerical rule in Iran, Pahlavi has lived in Morocco, Egypt, and France. Since 1984, he has maintained his family home in the United States. He has authored books in Farsi, English and French as part of his advocacy of the principles of freedom, democracy, and human rights for Iranians.