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.
Ruhollah Khomeini, also spelled RÅ«á¸¥allÄh KhomeynÄ«, original name Ruhollah Mostafavi (born September 24, 1902 [see Researcherâs Note], Khomeyn, Iranâdied June 3, 1989, TehrÄn), Iranian ShÄ«Ê¿ite cleric who led the revolution that overthrew Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1979 (see Iranian Revolution) and who was Iranâs ultimate political and religious ...