The word âHolocaustâ originates from the Greek term holokauston. The word is broken up into two roots: holos, meaning whole, and kaustos, meaning burn. The word etymologically transcended via late Latin, into Old French (holocauste), and eventuall...
The Islamic Republic of Iran changed SAVAK to SAVAMA. It was run after the revolution, according to U.S. sources and Iranian exile sources in the US and in Paris, by Gen. Hossein Fardoust, who was deputy chief of SAVAK under the former Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and a friend from boyhood of the deposed monarch.
In 1925, ambitious army officer, Reza Khan, other threw the shah. Like Ataturk, Reza Khan to modernize Persia and make it fully independent. He forced Persians to where westernized clothing, also encouraged women to vote. The Arab lands were divided between France and Britain. However, in Asia minor, the turkish peninsula resisted western control and fought to build a modern nation.