Word: savak
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...existentialism taught by the scholar Mohsin Faiz. He also became fascinated with Aristotle and Plato, whose Republic provided the model for Khomeini's concept of the Islamic republic, with the philosopher-king replaced by the Islamic theologian. He wrote lyric poetry under the pseudonym "Hindi"-a fact that SAVAK, the Shah's secret police, later used to insist that he was Indian rather than Iranian by birth...
...that does not mean any lack of support for sentences that have been pronounced by the revolutionary courts against officials who used torture and murder as instruments of policy. In one hourlong televised interview last week, a former interrogator for SAVAK, the Shah's secret police, broke down as he delivered a chilling account of the atrocities that had been committed during the Shah's reign. At the end, the announcer asked...
...workers are beginning to object to the clergy's heavy hand. They gripe about the censorship of movies and TV, the ban on alcohol and the increasing powers of the komiteh. Complained one worker: "It is almost like having SAVAK [the Shah's secret police], maybe even worse. I am beginning to watch my words in the presence of my children, because they might tell on me as a duty...
...chances. Khomeini announced that the revolutionary militias, known as the Guardians, would henceforth constitute a special armed force responsible only to the Revolutionary Council. The militias are expected to be a deterrent against further attempts on the leadership of the revolution-either from the left or from remnants of SAVAK...
...Gharani, former army Chief of Staff, the government was releasing little information on the case. Leaflets left by the group tried to portray its members as devoted to "Islam without the clergy." But many observers, in fact, believe that the professionally carried-out assassinations were the work of former SAVAK agents bent on creating anarchy or of vengeance squads associated with former top officials who have been executed...