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SAVAK

Iranian secret police [Iranian History: Facts (1979), 125]
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On the other hand, there is still lack of information about predicting the live body weight from morphological traits in Savak Akkaraman lambs by means of jointly using factor and multiple regression analyses; therefore the previous report on predicting body weight by morphological traits in the Savak Akkaraman sheep has not yet been found recently.
supported Shah and the SAVAK, Kovalik says, "Iranians have every reason and right to feel anger, and even hatred toward the United States, not just for what has been done to them, but also because the United States continues to do so while holding itself out as a bright beacon of democracy and freedom to the world."
By the late 1960s the shah had relied on SAVAK to quell dissent.
People passionately celebrated his departure and devastated military bases, police stations and SAVAK headquarters.
As for Iranian "democratization," we destroyed Iran's post-war parliamentary democracy in 1953 to protect Western control of its oil industry, then installed Shah Pahlavi's Savak police state until overthrown by the 1979 revolution.
As foreigners, we assessed that social discontent was due to glaring inequality; minimal outlets for political participation and suppression of protest; SAVAK repression; imposition of alien culture; all seemed to have aroused the nation.
support for the 1953 coup in Iran, and America's ties to the Shah and his brutal secret police, the Savak.
This breed has a large number of subtypes, and varieties, such as Karakas (Sonmez, 1978), Norduz (Bingol, 1998; Tuncer and Cengiz, 2010), Kangal, South Karaman, Zom and Savak (Koncagul et al., 2012).
This event, initially blamed by the public on the state secret police, SAVAK, was one of the biggest terrorist attacks in the country's history and is seen by many as the decisive trigger of the revolution.
Iras and Lavenham are indeed married over the course of the novel, but they are pursued by an ancient Egyptian priest, Savak, whose love for Iras during her life in ancient Egypt was unreciprocated.
First, his struggles with the shah's secret police, SAVAK, fanned the revolutionary flames in the heart of the young ideologue (p.
But noted economist and former RBI Governor Savak Sohrab Tarapore, 80, who passed away on February 2, was different.
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