Have you been thinking about those who fled Iran back then, where also part of a regime who arrested, tortured, and executed dissidents and political opponents. Britannica explicitly says SAVAK protected the regime by “arresting, torturing, and executing many dissidents,” and Amnesty International documented executions and unofficial deaths as well as torture and arbitrary detention in Iran under his rule. Source AI and britannica https://www.britannica.com/topic/SAVAK So after word war 2 Iran had their coup led by Cia, put the Shah in place instead of the the winner of the election who was Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. He is widely described as Iran’s democratically elected prime minister, and he was overthrown in the August 1953 coup backed by the U.S. and U.K. Who knows what Iran would had been today, if he got the chance, but we can only speculate how middle east would have looked like today if so. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mohammad-Mosaddegh?utm_source=chatgpt.com
