Word: bakhtiyar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Iran does have a secret police and the dismissal of its chief, General Bakhtiyar, does not mean the organization no longer exists. Probably some people in jail should not be there. Elections in Iran are a farce. But this does not mean that the Shah is another Hitler or Stalin with over-leaded concentration camps and a steady diet of executions. Extremist positions, either way, based more on emotions than on realities are distasteful...