The SAVAK was the Iranian Secret Police while the Shah of Iran was in power. The SAVAK was feared by the Iranian people and committed numerous arbitrary arrests. When Ayatollah Khomeini was first leading the Islamic Revolution in 1979, he promised to remove the SAVAK, but when he came to power he simply renamed the organization as the VEVAK, which survives in Iran to this day.

The SAVAK was the Iranian Secret Police while the Shah of Iran was in power. The SAVAK was feared by the Iranian people and committed numerous arbitrary arrests. When Ayatollah Khomeini was first leading the Islamic Revolution in 1979, he promised to remove the SAVAK, but when he came to power he simply renamed the organization as the VEVAK, which survives in Iran to this day.

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The cast of Khatte ghermez - 1982 includes: Kurosh Afsharpanah as Prisoner Saeed Amir Soleymani as SAVAK agent Farimah Farjami as Lale Jamshid Hashempur as SAVAK agent Gisu Kheradmand as Sima Saeed Pirdust as Chief Saeed Rad as Amani Ali Sabet as SAVAK agent Khosro Shakibai as Jamal

SAVAK was the Iranian Secret Police under the Shah of Iran. Shiites are the sect of Islam that is dominant in Iran, Iraq, and Azerbaijan.