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The Return of SAVAK’s Shadows: Why Romanticizing Repression Endangers Freedom

Summary by Iran News Update
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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Iran News Update broke the news on Monday, May 18, 2026.
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