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.
Assignment Why was Ayatollah Khomeini able to lead a successful Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979? Background In 1921 Reza Khan, commander of an Iranian cossack force, overthrew the decadent Kajar dynasty, and, as Reza Shah Pahlevi, established the Pahlevi dynasty in 1925.