Submitted by LookAtThatHotTurtle t3_z81p5s in OldSchoolCool
Automatic_Flight_659 t1_iyahha9 wrote
Reply to comment by US_FixNotScrewitUp in Mid 20th century wedding in Iran (before the Islamic Republic took over in 1979) by LookAtThatHotTurtle
Well, he wasn’t a religious nut, but his secret police kept the prisons and torture chambers full too.
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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