Former Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi tells CNN there are reports some security forces have been joining protesters in the streets of Tehran.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be sworn in for a second term sometime between July 26 and August 19, state-run media reported Tuesday. Many Iranians who have disputed the official outcome of the June 12 vote have taken to the streets to protest the results.

Reza Pahlavi, the former crown prince of Iran, says there are reports some security forces have been joining protesters in the streets of Tehran. Pahlavi’s father was the shah of Iran who was deposed in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. He spoke to John Roberts on CNN’s “American Morning” Tuesday.

John Roberts: The Guardian Council has ruled that the election results will stand and if there were irregularities they are not enough to swing the outcome of the election. There will be no new elections. What do you expect the reaction on the ground will be?

Reza Pahlavi: As we have all monitored the evolution of the situation, the supreme leader who has always been the final decider has drawn pretty much the line in the sand last Friday. And as such, I think the campaign that we have seen is now moving towards the direction of defiance and is going to be a resistance that will have to be sustained if indeed there's any hope for democracy in my homeland one day.

Roberts: There's debate as well over how much support the United States should give the protesters and the reform movement there in Iran. The White House is worried that coming out too strong in support could do more harm than good. What do you think?

Pahlavi: Well John, this is beyond a camp or another. This is not a question of election results anymore. This has become a defiance against a regime that has denied every right to its citizenry. When the chants on the streets in Tehran and other major cities in Iran and across the country are turning to “Death to Khamenei,” I don't think it could get as clear as that back home. The regime is now under question. The legitimacy is lost. The legitimacy now stands with the people. But there are also matters of ethics and moral responsibility, if I may say also. Something that the regime is trying to create [is] confusion between what could be considered as interference as opposed to standing for human rights and justice.

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By CNN's Carol Costello and Bob Ruff

The power of a single image can move mountains – and governments.

In 1970, during the Vietnam War, John Filo snapped a Pulitzer Prize winning photograph that may have tipped public opinion against that war.

John Filo’s black and white image showed 14-year-old Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling in grief over a Kent State student gunned down by Ohio National Guardsman who had been sent to the campus to quell an anti-war demonstration.

At the time many Americans already were numbed by repeated images of their soldiers dying in Vietnam, but the sight one of their sons or daughters gunned down at home was too much to take.

During World War II, Joseph Rosenthal also won a Pulitzer Prize for snapping a photograph of Marines raising the American flag after winning the battle of Iwo Jima. The photo helped raise badly needed war bonds and boosted the morale of a war weary nation. They even turned the photo into a statue at the Arlington National Cemetery.

But it doesn’t always work out that way.

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