The public revival of symbols associated with Iran’s former secret police is not merely political nostalgia — it reflects the normalization of authoritarian violence under a different banner In the quiet streets of Germany, where the memory of dictatorship and war still lingers in the political consciousness of Europe, a dark name has begun to reappear: SAVAK. For thousands of Iranians, SAVAK was never simply an intelligence agency. It was the s…
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