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.
Domestic problems that had arisen by the time of Shah Jahan that made the empire harder to govern. his military campaigns and expensive buildings increased taxes, transportation decreased, drought was frequent, decrease in agricultural efficiency, men abandoned towns, people were miserable, poverty.