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REZA BARAHENI has every reason to write angrily about repression in Iran. One of that country's best known poets and a former professor of literature at the University of Teheran, Baraheni was imprisoned and tortured for 102 days in Iran's notorious Komite because SAVAK, the Shah's secret service, believed his writings were subversive. Fortunately, Baraheni was well-known outside Iran, and international pressure finally forced SAVAK to release him. He is now living in exile in the U.S., trying to publicize the evils of the Shah's regime...
...Iran, leaving the reader to imagine for himself the effect on the rest of the people. The Shah's agents--many of them trained by the United States and equipped with techniques and weapons developed in the U.S.--are everywhere in Iran; many of them operate overseas, giving SAVAK a global reach...
Narmin Baraheni, a 21-year-old medical student at the University of Azarabadegan in Tabriz, Iran, was kidnapped last January by agents of the Iranian secret police (SAVAK) and carried off to the horrendous Comite prison. While awaiting "trial", she was subjected to several weeks of physical and psychological torture. Without ever holding a trial or making any specific charge against her, the SAVAK has sentenced her to seven years imprisonment...
...pursuance of this goal, the Shah has dispatched his secret police to the United States and Europe. The Washington Post reported on October 26, 1976, that the Shah formed SAVAK and now conducts its activities with the complicity of the U.S. government...
...Iranian secret police force, SAVAK, was actually organized by the CIA in 1956. The ties between the two agencies have always been close. One intelligence source, whose reliability has been tested, (said) that SAVAK agents hound and harass Iranians in the United States, with the full knowledge and sometimes the assistance of the CIA.................Answerable only to the Shah of Iran, SAVAK has become one of the most feared secret police agencies in the world. It uses terror and torture to achieve its ends....(There is) documentary evidence that SAVAK agents...commit burglaries, forgeries and other crimes in behalf...