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AS PROMISED let's blow The #SAVAK Myth How the Cleanest Intelligence Agency Became the Most Demonized For decades, the Shah’s story has been written by MEK terrorist group, the communist affiliates, and their academic mouthpieces. The internet repeats it. AI repeats it but when you follow the evidence instead of the slogans, the narrative totally collapses. Now let us talk about it 1- Start with this SAVAK is the ONLY secret service agency that unlike its counterparts (CIA, MI6, Mossad, KGB, Stasi, VEVAK) that has ZERO documented record of - foreign assassinations, - drug trafficking - financial black holes - making people disappear - civilian targetting - political purges 2- The only disputed death-in-custody event in the ENTIRE history of the agency is 9 Fedaiyan (Soviet-backed armed insurgent group) prisoners at Evin in 1975. SAVAK claims it was a prison escape attempt, revolutionaries claim they were shot. Until freedom of information in Iran, there is no public access to the files. But even accepting the revolutionary version, one incident in 22 years of agency history is negligible 3- SAVAK only dealt with armed communist terrorists, not regular people. Groups like Fedaiyan-e Khalq and MEK bombed banks, assassinated American, attacked police stations, and operated with Soviet backing. These were not peaceful dissidents. They were armed insurgents working for a hostile foreign power. 4- SAVAK did not execute ANYONE. It was an intelligence agency. Its job was surveillance, gathering information, and arresting suspects. The judiciary conducted trials, sometimes with UN representatives present, as in the Golsorkhi case. That is a functioning legal system, not a killing machine. the due process of those trials have never been successfully contested. 5- Normal Iranians did not have to deal with SAVAK. Journalists critical of the Shah operated freely. Politicians in opposition existed. The agency only targeted armed groups backed by hostile foreign powers. Others were contacted and questioned but NEVER pressed or prosecuted. Now let's examine some of the stories that built SAVAK's fearsome reputation: 6- Reza Baraheni claimed he was hung by his testicles while a bear attacked him. This was accepted during revolutionary fervor but later became satire because of how ridiculous it was. His own friend Hassan Roozpeykar, also a SAVAK prisoner, told him his experience was nothing like what Baraheni described. Baraheni admitted he "did what he needed to help the cause. His book "Crowned Cannibals" has been recognized to contain gross fabrications, claiming 300,000 people were imprisoned and 5,000 kidnapped in one day using tanks. He published his torture claims in Penthouse magazine. 7- Daryoush Eghbali, the famous singer, claimed he was in SAVAK custody for revolutionary songs. It was later revealed he was in police custody on heroin charges. This is public knowledge. Daryoush himself has been open about his struggle with heroin addiction. 8- Gholamreza Takhti, Iran's beloved Olympic wrestler, was found dead in 1968. Opposition claimed SAVAK murdered him. His own son Babak Takhti has confirmed his father took his own life. Takhti suffered from depression and marital problems. Revolutionaries and Islamic Republic maintains the murder narrative of admiration as a martyr. 9- Samad Behrangi, author of "The Little Black Fish," drowned in 1968. Blamed on SAVAK. Hamzeh Farahati, the army officer WHO WAS WITH HIM when it happened, confirmed to VOA and BBC Persian it was a common drowning. He stated that "revolutionaries' allegations of governmental involvement originated from their need to fabricate a martyr." 10- Cinema Rex fire, August 1978. Between 377-470 people burned alive. Revolutionaries blamed SAVAK. It has been long cleared that four Shiite revolutionaries locked the doors and set the theater on fire. One of the arsonists, Hossein Takbalizadeh, confessed in court: "I believed that this act was a step towards the revolution." In 2001, Iranian newspaper Sobhe Emrooz revealed the truth and was immediately shut down by the Islamic government. The revolutionaries burned 470 people alive, blamed the Shah, used it to fuel their revolution, then silenced anyone who told the truth. 11a- Ahmad-Reza Gholami, a Fedaiyan-linked militant in the early 1970s, was severely injured when a homemade firebomb detonated while he was assembling it for an attack. The explosion destroyed part of his face and left him permanently disfigured. He later reframed those injuries as “SAVAK torture,” blaming the security services for wounds that occurred during bomb preparation. 11b- Bahram Aram, a senior MEK military commander, was killed in 1976 when he detonated a grenade himself to avoid capture by security forces during an armed confrontation. His death occurred in active militant operations, not in custody. Yet after 1979, Aram was routinely presented in revolutionary narratives as a “victim of SAVAK torture,” blurring the line between armed combat deaths and custody abuse to expand the mythology of secret-police brutality. There are countless other cases like these. Now the numbers: 12- After the revolution, the Islamic Republic hired revolutionary Emad al-Din Baghi to document victims of the Shah. Khomeini claimed 60,000 martyrs. This number is in the Islamic Republic's constitution. Baghi could only confirm 3,164 deaths over 16 years (1963-1979). Of those, 2,700 were during the revolution itself in street clashes, not SAVAK. Over 450 were Cinema Rex victims, which revolutionaries caused. When Baghi tried to publish his findings, the regime told him to bury it. The Martyrs Foundation (Bonyad Shahid) confirms these numbers. 13- The Red Cross (ICRC) investigated SAVAK and found far lower incidence of torture and fewer political prisoners than claimed. Their findings were ignored by the same media that had condemned the Shah. Amnesty International had to change its policy after repeatedly pursuing cases only to discover the prisoners had already been released. Now let's compare SAVAK to other agencies: 14- CIA: COINTELPRO assassinations, MKUltra experiments on citizens, Phoenix Program (20,000+ Vietnamese killed), drug trafficking (Iran-Contra, Afghanistan), black site torture programs worldwide. 15- KGB/FSB: Millions killed in Gulag system, systematic torture, assassinations abroad (Litvinenko, Navalny), total surveillance state. 16- MSS China: 1+ million Uyghurs in concentration camps, systematic torture documented by UN, runs its own detention facilities where people disappear. 17- RAW India: 5,591 people shot by police between 2017-2023 alone, legal immunity for security forces, extrajudicial killings in Kashmir, assassination plots in Canada and US. 18- Stasi East Germany: 1 in 6 citizens were informants, systematic psychological torture, total surveillance of population. 19- VEVAK/IRGC Islamic Republic: 1988 massacre (3,000-30,000 executed in weeks), chain murders of intellectuals, 2019 protests (1,500 killed), 2022 protests (500+ killed), 63+ foreign assassinations documented. 20,000 in the recent days and SAVAK???? 9!!!!!! JUST NINE! NINE! 9!! The ONLY major intelligence agency that never ran drugs, never made people disappear, never targeted civilians, never targeted political rivals, and actually used a functioning legal system. Yet SAVAK is the most demonized intelligence agency in modern history. Why? - Soviet propaganda. - Khomeini's propaganda machine. - Anti-Pahlavi groups like MEK. - Western guilt over 1953. - Anti shah media such as BBC, Le Monde, Guardian< NYT Amnesty International running with unverified claims. The winners wrote history. The same leftists who demonized SAVAK for "human rights abuses" now defend or ignore the Islamic Republic, a regime that killed more people in single weeks than the Shah's entire 38-year reign. The pattern is clear: sensational claims with no evidence. When investigated, stories fall apart or are revealed as deliberate fabrications to "help the cause." AI repeats these narratives because of training data. But when you press AI with hard evidence and ask for specific names and documentation, the narrative collapses. SAVAK's job was to stop terrorists from taking over Iran. It failed. Perhaps if it had actually been what they claimed it was, it would have succeeded. #IranMassacre #SAVAK #Revolutionlran2026