Reza Pahlavi, the elder son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the late Shah of Iran, will give a talk titled "Human Rights, Democratization and the Secular Movement in Iran" Wednesday, April 4, at 6 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium of Rockefeller Hall on the Cornell University campus. The talk is sponsored by the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs (CIPA) and is free and open to the public.

A graduate in political science of the University of Southern California, Pahlavi left Iran in the summer of 1978 to complete his Air Force training at the former Reese Air Force base in Lubbock, Texas. He has lived in Egypt and Morocco and, since 1984, he has resided in the United States.

Pahlavi is an outspoken critic of the fundamentalist Islamic regime in Iran that forced his father from the throne in 1979. In comments to the French Press Club in Paris earlier this month, Pahlavi called for an end to the 22-year-long rule of his homeland by Islamic clerics, whose regime, he said, has "brutally suppressed fundamental human rights within Iran" and turned the country into "the leading exporter of hate and terror beyond its borders."

The talk is co-sponsored by the Iranian Students Organization, the Department of Near Eastern Studies, the International Students Programming Board, the office of Professor Theodore Lowi, the departments of Government and of Sociology, and the Committee for Comparative Muslim Societies.

For more information, call the CIPA office at (607) 255-8018, or e-mail cipa@cornell.edu .