Gozashteh va Ayandeh (The Past and the Future)

The Past and the Future is Prince Reza Pahlavi's first major political work — a book cast as a long interview with the veteran journalist Ahmad Ahrar and published at the end of the 1990s. Its French translation, Pour l'Iran, was issued by Flammarion in 2004. The work blends autobiography with political reflection and gives the Prince's own account of more than two decades of Iran's contemporary history.

In it, Prince Reza Pahlavi speaks of his father's court and the shortcomings around the monarchy, examines the roots of the 1979 revolution and the conduct of the Western powers at that moment, and touches on the Iran–Iraq war and the forces opposing the Islamic Republic. Above all he sets out a vision for Iran's future: a pluralist, democratic order that safeguards minority rights and fundamental freedoms.

For diaspora readers, the book is the starting point for understanding Prince Reza Pahlavi's political thought — where, after years of relative public silence, he speaks clearly for the first time about a transition to secular democracy and explores the bond between Iran's past and its future.