Originally posted by Elfie
The Shah hadn't been in power yet so no one could have known what kind of ruler he would be. Even though the CIA trained his secret police no one could have known for sure how he would use them.
The Iranians have their own government know, a government they put in power. What the CIA did was done at the request of an ally and was done over 60 years ago. Some of you people act like us Americans on this board are directly resposnible.
Wrong - the Shah was in power since he was installed as a puppet of the allies after the invasion of Iran in 1941.
He replced his father - Shah Reza Khan, who refused to join the allies and who refused to allow that Iran became a support route for allied supplies for the USSR.
The CIA operation to overthrow the democratic premier Mossadegh was in the 50ties - so they really knew what kind of ruler the Shah was.
Also the secret police was trained by th CIA especially to avoid any further revolution against the Shah.
The SAVAK became an organisation like the Nazi Gestapo and the terror of the Shah which lasted for decades and killed and tortured tenthousands of iranians led to the bloody revolution in 1979 and made the terrorregime of the Mullahs possible.
Because all normal democratic people and leaders have been eliminated by the SAVAK and only the radical opposition elements had survived.
Its a sad part of history that Mossadegh was deposed - especially for Iran and the iranians.
So decades of terror passed - first by the Shah then by the mullahs.
