Was the SAVAK really that bad? How much of the uproar against the Shah had to do with state repression as opposed to ordinary economic difficulties?The Shah's repression of communists and clerical subversives just look like Turkey's Kemalist authoritarianism, so why did one work; while the other suffered a revolt?
>>18294807Only 3000 people were imprisoned during the shahs entire reign and most of them are the same Islamists who current run the country, including the current supreme leader. So the “both shah and ayatollah are equally bad” crowd can GTFO
