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THERE HAS BEEN good news in Iran this past week. The Iranian people have taken to the streets in one of the largest mass uprisings against the police state of Shah Reza Pahlevi since his regime regained power. There has also been bad news--martial law has been declared, and the Shah's police have struck back with a quick lash of repression. But such a response is only to be expected from a regime whose legitimacy rests largely on state terror. No one can doubt that it will take a great deal of bloodshed and violence before the Shah...
...government has been what Henry A. Kissenger '50 used to like to call "political stability." The price paid by the bulk of Iranian people has been continued mass poverty in the face of petro-dollar plenty and perpetual intimidation by the SAVAK, the Shah's secret police. For Pahlevi's most out-spoken critics it has often meant imprisonment and grotesque torture that has been only too vividly documented by some of those who escaped...
Since the CIA-backed coup that brought him to power in 1953, Shah Mohammed Pahlevi has ruled Iran with a ruthless authoritarian hand. It is now estimated that over 300,000 people have passed through the Shah's prisons in the past 20 years, and that an average of 1500 people are arrested each year. Professors and political dissidents critical of the regime are brutally tortured, and the Shah's police monitor all aspects of public activity...
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi assumed power in Iran in 1953 after a coup sponsored by the CIA; since then, Iran has been run as a virtual police state, and its educational system has come under increasing control by the repressive regime. Curriculum is strictly controlled by the state, and professors who express views opposing those of the regime are tortured until they recant. The Shah is friendly with the United States, however; apparently that's all Harvard has cared about since it began its $1.5 million involvement in Iran...
...Keenan's job is not that simple. Iran's leader, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, who came to power by a CIA-sponsored coup in 1953, runs the Middle Eastern nation as a virtual police state. With the aid of his CIA-trained SAVAK, or secret police, the Shah has jailed 100,000 political dissenters, according to Amnesty International estimates...