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.
26 October 1919, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi was born in Tehran, Iran. His father Reza Khan, was the Minister of Defense in Iran. 1941, Even though Iran proclaimed neutrality during World War II, the USSR and Britain demanded Reza Shah Pahlavi get rid of his German advisors.