• Thumbnail for SAVAK
    romanized: Sāzmān-e Ettelā'āt va Amniyat-e Keshvar), shortened to as SAVAK (Persian: ساواک) or S.A.V.A.K. (Persian: س.ا.و.ا.ک) was the secret police of the Imperial...
    23 KB (2,470 words) - 19:00, 18 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ministry of Intelligence (Iran)
    initially eager to purge SAVAK elements from the new organization, but that pragmatism eventually prevailed, with many experienced SAVAK personnel being retained...
    17 KB (986 words) - 21:59, 8 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Savak (band)
    SAVAK is an indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York. Their debut album Best of Luck in Future Endeavors was released on Comedy Minus One in May 2016,...
    5 KB (419 words) - 13:34, 13 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nematollah Nassiri
    Nematollah Nassiri (category Directors of SAVAK)
    February 1979) was an Iranian military officer who served as the director of SAVAK, the Iranian intelligence agency during the rule of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi...
    14 KB (1,372 words) - 08:11, 18 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Teymur Bakhtiar
    Teymur Bakhtiar (category Directors of SAVAK)
    Iranian general and the founder and head of SAVAK from 1956 to 1961 when he was dismissed by the Shah. In 1970, SAVAK agents assassinated him in Iraq. He was...
    15 KB (1,749 words) - 17:10, 4 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cinema Rex fire
    militants started the fire, while anti-Pahlavi protesters falsely blamed SAVAK, the Iranian secret police, for setting the fire. Even though Islamic extremists...
    24 KB (2,588 words) - 03:06, 1 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nasser Moghaddam
    Nasser Moghaddam (category Directors of SAVAK)
    an Iranian military officer who served as the fourth and final chief of SAVAK from 6 June 1978 to 12 February 1979. He assumed the position after the...
    18 KB (2,008 words) - 13:23, 8 May 2024
  • Indian Hindi-language psychological supernatural horror film produced by Savak Vacha and Ashok Kumar under the banner of Bombay Talkies, and directed by...
    24 KB (2,679 words) - 21:49, 11 August 2024
  • Manucher Ghorbanifar (category People of SAVAK)
    Gorba, born May 9, 1945) is an expatriate Iranian arms dealer and former SAVAK agent. According to the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Ghorbanifar...
    21 KB (1,914 words) - 07:46, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pahlavi Iran
    opponents with the help of Iran's security and intelligence secret police, SAVAK. Such opponents included leftists and Islamists. By the mid-1970s, relying...
    28 KB (2,700 words) - 16:21, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Iranian Revolution
    fire — claimed by the opposition as having been orchestrated by Pahlavi's SAVAK — served as a catalyst for a popular revolutionary movement across Iran...
    228 KB (23,923 words) - 03:21, 4 September 2024
  • States on HBO. Karl Savak, a "rogue FBI agent", is attempting to steal and sell military weapons. When stealing weaponry, one of Savak's henchmen, Marcus...
    7 KB (749 words) - 22:22, 20 December 2023
  • a SAVAK agent Bruce Gramian as a SAVAK agent Hadi Sadjadi as a SAVAK agent In addition to Landis, the film's director, appearing as one of the SAVAK agents...
    15 KB (1,851 words) - 15:11, 7 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
    in Abadan that was erroneously blamed on the Iranian intelligence agency SAVAK. The 1979 Guadeloupe Conference saw Mohammad Reza's Western allies state...
    241 KB (30,887 words) - 12:16, 5 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mostafa Khomeini
    various reports that SAVAK agents were present at the scene. Hence, his death was attributed to the Shah's secret police, SAVAK. His father later described...
    7 KB (610 words) - 05:10, 9 August 2024
  • including Libya, Iran and Syria, have highly developed operations as well. SAVAK, the secret police of the Pahlavi dynasty, was particularly feared by Iranian...
    59 KB (7,180 words) - 04:07, 3 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1953 Iranian coup d'état
    the Shah's government formed the SAVAK (secret police), many of whose agents were trained in the United States. The SAVAK monitored dissidents and carried...
    137 KB (16,824 words) - 04:31, 21 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bijan Jazani
    of the third national movement had increasingly worried SAVAK (ساواک). On May 22, 1965, Savak arrested Mostafa Mallad and Bahmanpour Shareaty. In the...
    25 KB (3,777 words) - 15:05, 31 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for David Frost
    the U.S. on 17 January. The Shah talks about his wealth, his illness, the SAVAK, the torture during his reign, Khomeini, his threat of extradition to Iran...
    45 KB (4,639 words) - 17:24, 7 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mossad
    increasingly active in Iran, "training SAVAK personnel and carrying out a broad variety of joint operations with SAVAK." A US intelligence official told The...
    94 KB (10,331 words) - 23:25, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ali Akbar Derakhshani
    was closely monitored by the authorities. On the night of March 27, 1978, SAVAK agents raided his home, alleging espionage for the Soviet Union, although...
    37 KB (4,090 words) - 21:33, 16 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cold War
    communist Tudeh Party of Iran, and general suppression of political dissent by SAVAK, the shah's domestic security and intelligence agency. In Guatemala, a banana...
    317 KB (34,983 words) - 11:41, 6 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ali Khamenei
    Organisations Hojjatie Society Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Restart SAVAK Media Abrar Islamic Republican Kayhan Partow-e Sokhan Rajanews Resalat Vatan-e-Emrooz...
    213 KB (18,126 words) - 07:37, 4 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hossein Fardoust
    Hossein Fardoust (category People of SAVAK)
    1917 – 18 May 1987) was an Iranian military officer who was the deputy head of SAVAK, the powerful Iranian intelligence agency during the Pahlavi era. He was...
    12 KB (1,570 words) - 16:23, 27 March 2024
  • the big hits of the year from Bombay Talkies produced by Ashok Kumar and Savak Vacha, "Tamasha" had a narrative far ahead of its times, its action spread...
    4 KB (344 words) - 04:33, 7 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1963 demonstrations in Iran
    tanks and paratroopers. In Tehran, demonstrators attacked police stations, SAVAK offices and government buildings, including ministries. The surprised government...
    13 KB (1,514 words) - 03:48, 10 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hassan Pakravan
    Hassan Pakravan (category Directors of SAVAK)
    his political involvement with the Mohammad Reza Pahlavi government and SAVAK, but also his relationship with Ruhollah Khomeini. Hassan Pakravan, son...
    9 KB (948 words) - 03:57, 10 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Parviz Sabeti
    Parviz Sabeti (category People of SAVAK)
    Sar) is an Iranian lawyer, former SAVAK top deputy under the regime of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. He was in charge of SAVAK’s third. Born in Sang-e Sar, Semnan...
    6 KB (649 words) - 07:36, 5 August 2024
  • Shikari is a Bollywood film released in 1946, directed by Savak B. Vacha, starring Ashok Kumar, Kishore Kumar, Paro Devi and Veera. The music was directed...
    3 KB (114 words) - 03:29, 7 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
    Organisations Hojjatie Society Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Restart SAVAK Media Abrar Islamic Republican Kayhan Partow-e Sokhan Rajanews Resalat Vatan-e-Emrooz...
    132 KB (11,738 words) - 08:50, 5 September 2024