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.
After Pahlavi refused, Britain and the USSR invaded Iran on the pretext of securing a supply route to Russia. On September 16, 1941, after refusing to cooperate with Britain and the USSR, Reza Shah Pahlavi was forced to step down. His son, at 22 years of age, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, became the leader of Iran.is son, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi ascended to the throne in Iran. 1945, The United States and Britain withdrew from Iran. The Soviets remained. The United States assisted Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in the removal of Soviet troops.