An Iranian intelligence organization for the Shah, founded in 1957 with CIA assistance. Its primary purpose was to eliminate threats to the Shah. SAVAK's tactics included censorship, torture ...

(credit: WEST ASIA NEWS AGENCY/REUTERS) Its predecessor, the shah’s SAVAK, was disbanded on the eve of Khomeini’s return to Iran. Yet Khomeini in exile had been insightful enough to cultivate ...

The Islamic Republic quickly established its own secret police, Savama – Sazman-e Ettelaat Va Amniat Meli Iran – which used many of the same brutal methods as Savak. This week, Iranians will recall ...

(credit: WEST ASIA NEWS AGENCY/REUTERS) Its predecessor, the shah’s SAVAK, was disbanded on the eve of Khomeini’s return to Iran. Yet Khomeini in exile had been insightful enough to cultivate ...

If the hostages in Iran were not released ... victims, that is, of Savak, the Shah's notorious secret police. I have heard a diplomat, an old friend of the Shah's, always hasten, if somebody ...

Before the 1979 revolt, he was arrested by SAVAK (the National Security Agency of Iran during the reign of the late, and patriotic Shah of Iran) due to terrorist activity in an Islamic group.

French-Iranian researcher Fariba Adelkhah ... the latter has been entrusted with repressive functions devolved to the infamous Savak under the Shah. Parce qu’une autre personne (ou vous ...