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The Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado and Reza Pahlavison of the last shah of Persia, met this Thursday in Washington to address the future of Venezuela and Iran after the overthrow of Nicolás Maduro and while citizen protests against the Islamic Republic continue.
“We exchange perspectives on our respective struggles and join our efforts toward a common goal: the liberation of Iran and Venezuela from oppression”Machado reported this Thursday about the meeting on his X account.
The opposition leader has been in the US capital since last week, when she met at the White House with the president, Donald Trump, y He gave him his Nobel Peace Prize medal.
Pahlavieldest son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who led Iran until he was overthrown in the Islamic Revolution of 1979, is exiled in the United States and maintains that he has a plan to assume power in Iran if the ayatollah regime falls.
Machado assured that during the express meetingor “his deep admiration for the Iranian people, who continues to fight for their future with immense courage in the face of brutal repression.
I had the pleasure of meeting with @PahlaviReza. We exchanged insights on our respective struggles and aligned our efforts toward a shared purpose: the liberation of Iran and Venezuela from oppression. I expressed my deep admiration for the Iranian people, who continue to fight… pic.twitter.com/dJJ5iePIf8
— María Corina Machado (@MariaCorinaYA) January 22, 2026
Likewise, he denounced that the alliance between Chavismo in Caracas and the ayatollahs in Tehran “has turned Venezuela into the epicenter of Iranian influence, endangering the security of the entire American continent.”
“The survival of these regimes is not only a tragedy for our citizenswho overwhelmingly demand democracy, but a direct threat to global stability and the United States,” he noted.
Although Trump has excluded Machado from the transition process in Venezuela for now, supporting, instead, the Government headed by the Chavista interim president Delcy Rodríguez, After receiving the Nobel Prize gift, he declared that he would like to “involve her” in the future of the country.
For its part, the Trump Administration has not publicly endorsed the government plan proposed by Pahlavi in case protests in Iran topple the Islamic Republic.