Idi Amin suspending certain provisions of the Ugandan constitution, and soon instituted an Advisory Defence Council composed of military officers with himself as the chairman. Amin placed military tribunals above the system of civil law, appointed soldiers to top government posts and parastatal agencies, and informed the newly inducted civilian cabinet ministers that they would be subject to military discipline. Amin renamed the presidential lodge in Kampala from Government House to "The Command Post". He disbanded the General Service Unit (GSU), an intelligence agency created by the previous government, and replaced it with the State Research Bureau (SRB). SRB headquarters at the
Mohammad-Amin Riahi classical Persian texts such as "Mersad-al-ebad" and "Nozhat-al-majalis". During a course of 60 years he published numerous scholarly articles, a selection of which are gathered in a volume titled "Forty essays on language, literature and history of Iran". Among numerous cultural positions he held during his career, Riahi was a professor of Tehran University, the founding member and later president of the Shahnameh Foundation (1971–1979), vice-chairman of the Iranian Academy of Literature and Arts, and Iranian Minister of Education (1979). "Critical Editions of old Persian books:" "Literary and Historical research books:" "Some of Encyclopedic Articles:" Mohammad-Amin Riahi Mohammad-Amin Riahi (;