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.
Please try again later. The Safavid dynasty (Persian: Ø³ÙØ³ÙÙÙ ØµÙÙÙØ§Ùâ; Azerbaijani: SÉfÉvilÉr, ØµÙÙÛÙØ±) was one of the most significant ruling dynasties of Persia (modern Iran), and is often considered the beginning of modern Persian history.