(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 ...

Iran, because of the great leadership of the ... I was deeply concerned about his abuse through his secret service at SAVAK of civilians who were demonstrating against his regime.

The Shah’s secret police, the Savak, had become a watchword for torture ... at a banquet in Tehran on New Year’s Eve of 1977. “Iran, because of the great leadership of the Shah, is an ...

stifling all forms of dissent and deploying his CIA-trained SAVAK police force on dissenters. At the palace, Carter raised a glass to this same shah, hailing Iran as the most stable country in the ...

During the Cold War, the ISI adopted the same structure as the Savak, the internal intelligence service of the Shah of Iran. It also received assistance from the CIA and the SDECE, the predecessor ...

The Shah’s secret police, savak, first tortured him ... he was one of the founders of the Iranian Committee for Human Rights. At first, the revolutionary authorities feted Mr Rezai: he met Khomeini on ...

During the Cold War, the ISI adopted the same structure as the Savak, the internal intelligence service of the Shah of Iran. It also received assistance from the CIA and the SDECE, the predecessor of ...