SAVAK
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SAVAK, an acronym of Sāzmān-e Ettelā'āt va Amniyat-e Keshvar, was the secret police of the Imperial State of Iran. It was established in Tehran in 1957 and continued to operate until the Islamic Revolution in 1979, when it was dissolved by Iranian prime minister Shapour Bakhtiar, who was assassinated by the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1991.
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Pahlavi Iran
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Pahlavi Iran, officially the Imperial State of Persia until 1935 and the Imperial State of Iran from 1935 to 1979, was the Iranian state under the rule of the Pahlavi dynasty. The Pahlavi dynasty was created in 1925 and lasted until 1979, when it was ousted as part of the Islamic Revolution, which ended Iran's continuous monarchy and established the current Islamic Republic of Iran.
Persia on the eve of Reza Shah Pahlavi's coup
The Allied "Big Three" at the 1943 Tehran Conference
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and his wife Farah Diba upon his coronation as the Shah of Iran. His wife was crowned as the Shahbanu of Iran.
The last Shah of Iran meets with clergy members