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Automatic_Flight_659 t1_iyahha9 wrote

Well, he wasn’t a religious nut, but his secret police kept the prisons and torture chambers full too.

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x31b t1_iyay8ga wrote

And when the mullahs took over, they kept and expanded that same secret police.

Source: last paragraph of the Wikipedia article on SAVAK.

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