"Free of conflict, Tehran immediately struck up a friendship with Hamas – despite its being a Sunni organization rather than ...

Despite the failures of the Islamic Republic, many Iranians still see it as a reflection of their desire for an Islamic ...

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 ...

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.

It’s actually an image of an exhibit at the Ebrat Museum in Tehran, Iran. The museum, a former prison, uses wax mannequins to portray human rights abuses carried out by the SAVAK, Iran’s pre ...

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 ...