"I am not saying to President Obama or other leaders of this world, 'Don't have a dialogue with the regime.' All I am suggesting is that you should have today a dual-track approach -- talk to the mullahs all you want, but talk to the Iranian people as well," Pahlavi said.
His father, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, fled Iran in 1979 in the face of increasingly violent protests against his rule, with cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini then returning from exile to take power. The shah died in exile in Egypt in 1980.
The American-educated Pahlavi has lived in the United States since 1984 after previously living in Morocco and Egypt following the 1979 Iranian revolution.
The United States in 1953 restored his father to power in Iran as the CIA and British agents orchestrated the overthrow of Iran's popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh.
Asked if he aspired to return to Iran as shah and restore the monarchy, Pahlavi said it would be premature to answer.
"The only thing that I'm concerned with -- which is my agenda, my political agenda -- is to end up with a secular parliamentary, democratic system," Pahlavi said.
Such a system could take the form of a parliamentary monarchy such as in Sweden or Japan, he said. "I'm not fighting for any job right now. This is not about me," Pahlavi added.
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