Iran's top human rights official on Monday said the country will prosecutethe former deputy chief of SAVAK, theso-called secret policeduring the Pahlavi regime, for his complicity inhuman rights abuses against the people of Iran. Kazem Gharibabadi, secretary of Iran's High Council for Human Rights and the judiciary chief's deputy for international ...

The Wall Street Journal - The 1979 revolution was in large part a reaction to the earlier coup and intervening years. Regarding Eric S. Edelman and Franklin C. Millers Hostilities With Iran Began in 79 (op-ed, Jan. 9): To be fair, hostilities with Iran can be traced pretty clearly to the U.S.-U.K. orchestrated coup against democratically elected ...

Tasnim | M.Hossein Movahedinejad: As Iran is celebrating the 40th anniversary of victory of the Islamic Revolution, many people visit the Ebrat Museum in downtown Tehran, a circular jail that was once a political prison run by the Pahlavi regimes secret police, known as SAVAK in Persian.    ...