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SAVAK

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SAVAK
Iranian secret police [Iranian History: Facts (1979), 125]
See : Brutality


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Skirting a discussion of the troubling human rights record of the shah's intelligence and security service, the SAVAK, rezapahlavi.
Chatroom revolutionaries: Iran's dissidents and exiles discover the ... by Johnson, Marc C. / Reason
Consequently, Israel received lucrative contracts, not to mention secret supplies of oil, and, in return, taught SAVAK, the shah's secret police, how to be more efficient.
What happens to the Israeli-Turkish alliance now? by Killgore, Andrew I. / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
He fled to Iran, and in trying to cross the border into Russia, he was arrested and subjected to torture at the hands of the SAVAK.
Stirring words: traditions and subversions in the poetry of Muzaffar ... by Bardenstein, Carol / Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)
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