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This article is reliable. The author is Farnaz Fassihi. She has solid Iranian elite sources. She has lived and worked in Iran, has covered the country for three decades and was a war correspondent in the Middle East for 15 years.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    Are you trying to make the case that things are better now than prior to the Islamic revolution?

    • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
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      1 hour ago

      The claim that there was “liberty” before is false. Unless “liberty” means being under surpression by an US installed regime.

      • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
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        33 minutes ago

        Liberty is a broad concept and can definitely apply here. Do you think women feel like there is less oppression now?

        • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
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          18 minutes ago

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAVAK

          The Bureau for Intelligence and Security of the State (Persian: سازمان اطلاعات و امنیت کشور, romanized: Sâzmân-e Ettelâ’ât va Amniyyat-e Kešvar), shortened to SAVAK (Persian: ساواک) or S.A.V.A.K. (Persian: س.ا.و.ا.ک),[2] was the secret police of the Imperial State of Iran. It was established in Tehran in 1957 by national security law,[3] and continued to operate until the Islamic Revolution in 1979, when it was dissolved by Iranian prime minister Shapour Bakhtiar.

          Writing at the time of the Shah’s overthrow, Time magazine on February 19, 1979, described SAVAK as having “long been Iran’s most hated and feared institution” which had “tortured and murdered thousands of the Shah’s opponents”.[7] The Federation of American Scientists also found it guilty of “the torture and execution of thousands of political prisoners” and symbolising “the Shah’s rule from 1963–79.” The FAS list of SAVAK torture methods included “electric shock, whipping, beating, inserting broken glass and pouring boiling water into the rectum, tying weights to the testicles, and the extraction of teeth and nails”.

          A lot of the structures and part of the personell of SAVAK was then integrated into the current internal police such as the Evin Prtison

          There was no liberty under the US backed regime and whitewashing them as a means to present the US and Israel as the better alternative is wrong.