SAVAK, the new band featuring Sohrab and Greg from Obits, will be going on a short, four-city tour with Washington DC’s The Effects. That tour wraps up in NYC at ...

Explore Savak, the Shah-era secret police, its role in the 1979 Iranian revolution, and the 2025 Florida lawsuit against ...

Weeks of nationwide anti-government protests in Iran against the ever-deepening economic crisis, which has shown no signs of improvement in years, have brought renewed focus on the nation's ...

Brooklyn’s SAVAK, which includes members of OBITS, Holy Fuck and more, released their third album, Beg Your Pardon, this year. It’s their most direct statement yet, with hints of The Smiths, glam and ...

Tens of thousands of Iranian-Americans, including supporters of the exiled former crown prince of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, held rallies in the United States* recently to show their support for the ongoing ...

Two years after reemerging from decades in hiding, Parviz Sabeti is facing a multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed by three former Iranian dissidents who accuse the ex-top security official under the shah ...

Since the cycle of new publications has slowed due to coronavirus, Ahram Online offers recommendations of books not necessarily published recently that you can read during quarantine The Savak, ...

Retired general Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., who commanded U.S. and coalition troops against Iraq’s Saddam Hussein during the first Gulf War in 1990-1991, has died at the age of 78. Widely praised for ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Brooklyn post-punk mainstays SAVAK have returned with "Cold Ocean" b/w ...

Three former political dissidents now living in the U.S. are suing the Shah of Iran’s “chief torturer” – who later relocated to Florida and became a real estate developer – over years of unimaginable ...

The Savak, Translated by: Mahmoud Salama Alawy, Revised by: Mohamed El-Sayed Gamal El-Din (Cairo: National Centre for Translation) 2003, 301pp. The Savak was one of the most infamous and brutal ...