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.
The rise and fall of empires in Persia. 1  The first Persian state: Ahaemenid Persia (648 BC-330 BC) 2  Hellenistic Persia (330 BC-170 BC) 3  Parthian Persia (170 BC-AD 226) 4  Sassanid Persia (AD 226-650) 5  Islam and Persia (650-1219) 6  Persia under the Mongols and their successors (1219-1500) 7  A new Persian empire: the Safavids (1500-1722)