The self-declared shah of Iran Reza Pahlavi has claimed he is a "steward of a national transition to democracy" amid the escalating protests in Iran against the country's supreme leader Ali Khamenei.

Editor's note: Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed Saturday after the U.S. and Israel began military strikes. Khamenei took over Iran in 1989, succeeding Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini ...