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.
family / dynasty. Ê¿AbbÄs I, byname Ê¿AbbÄs the Great (born Jan. 27, 1571âdied Jan. 19, 1629), shah of Persia from 1588 to 1629, who strengthened the á¹¢afavid dynasty by expelling Ottoman and Uzbek troops from Persian soil and by creating a standing army.