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.
Farah Pahlavi. I do not live in the past, I live in the present, always hoping for a brighter future. This is my message to all my countrymen. Farah Pahlavi (born 14 October 1938) is the former empress of the Imperial State of Iran, and widow of Muhammad Reza Pahlavi.