Well it's a good guess that Crumb the 1st
and Netanyahu will try to move the son of the Shah into the leadership of Iran. People might remember the things that "Daddy" was famous for. Like the brutal security organization SAVAK.
SAVAK was established, funded and trained by a combination of French and CIA personnel. So what was SAVAK about? They went after dissidents, artists, news people, authors, political opponents, students etc. and not just in Iran. They traveled the world keeping tabs on people. All with a good deal of continued support and training from the US and others. Good friends indeed.
The Shah was put up to take out the leader of Iran who wanted to nationalize the oil production. Gee isn't it funny how it always seems to be about oil, money and power?
So what were some of the things SAVAK was taught by the CIA and the French to perform on people? The bastinado was an old time favorite for torturers which involved beating the bottoms of peoples feet. But they learned so much more from their instructors from "freedom loving" countries. See if a few of these sound like familiar things from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan:
" Brute force was supplemented with the bastinado; sleep deprivation; extensive solitary confinement; glaring searchlights; standing in one place for hours on end; nail extractions; snakes (favored for use with women); electrical shocks with cattle prods, often into the rectum; cigarette burns; sitting on hot grills; acid dripped into nostrils; near-drownings; mock executions; and an electric chair with a large metal mask to muffle screams while amplifying them for the victim."
That's right. Waterboarding, mock executions, electrical shocks, rectal torture are all long time CIA favorites as we all know. Oh that's right I forgot that the CIA says it was all legal because a hack lawyer wrote a memo saying it's all cool.
Is there really any doubt whether "Daddy's Boy" in the Pahlavi line of apologists will bring his own SAVAK quickly into being if he gets control? Is there really any doubt that the US will help make it happen all over again? It's pretty much the standard US playbook for what we've always done and still do in our own hemisphere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAVAK
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