[Olog-hai]

All I hear about SAVAK is what the leftists say about it. And if they were the apparatus that the Shah had to set up after Mossadegh’s treasonous behavior, then it behooves everyone to cut through the leftists’ propaganda about it, especially that of people like Ervand Abrahamian and that ilk.

The head of SAVAK from 1961 to 1966, Hassan Pavrakan, was too soft on Khomeini, so that reveals one bad aspect. He got executed for his benevolence by Khomeini’s Islamic Republic.

So again: What did the Shah do wrong?

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"So again: What did the Shah do wrong?"

You are being just like our leftist counterparts who will overlook anything Mossadegh did just because he was "their guy". Well, the Shah may have been "our guy" but as I stated before, he was no saint.

The point of all of this was an original response of mine to your response as to why the Iranian people did not rise up to protect the Shah. Well, if your leader were employing SAVAK on the people with many widely documented civil rights violations to include tortures such as stuffing things up people's rectums, you might not be itching to fight for him either. You might think, meh maybe the Ayotolla ain't so bad...