The word âHolocaustâ originates from the Greek term holokauston. The word is broken up into two roots: holos, meaning whole, and kaustos, meaning burn. The word etymologically transcended via late Latin, into Old French (holocauste), and eventuall...
The Islamic Republic of Iran changed SAVAK to SAVAMA. It was run after the revolution, according to U.S. sources and Iranian exile sources in the US and in Paris, by Gen. Hossein Fardoust, who was deputy chief of SAVAK under the former Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and a friend from boyhood of the deposed monarch.
In 1953, the US and Britain orchestrated a coup against the government of Iranâs left-leaning Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadeq in response to his nationalization of UK-owned oil assets in the country. The coup installed the pro-US leader Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi as the countryâs monarch. In 1979, at the height of the Islamic revolution, the Shah fled Iran and an Islamic government took office. âThey installed a government that was a puppet to American policies for 25 years, a tyrant who had imposed dictatorship, very dark ages for Iran,â Ebtekar said.