On February 26, 2025, news broke about a lawsuit filed in the United States against Parviz Sabeti, the head of the notorious Third Department of SAVAK (the Shah\u2019s secret police) before the 1979 revolution. The lawsuit, filed by three political prisoners tortured during the Shah\u2019s time, introduced Sabeti as the architect of institutionalizing torture in Iran and using forced confessions in public, obtained through torture. This practice was developed by Sabeti and has been expanded and used today in the mullahs\u2019 regime.<\/p>\n
The Independent\u00a0reported\u00a0that many sources say the Shah and Mullahs\u2019 regime are \u201ctwo sides of the same coin.\u201d The legacy of torture was built by the Shah and expanded by the Mullahs\u2019 regime. SAVAK was never dismantled, and was employed by the Mullahs\u2019 regime.<\/p>\n
Many political prisoners of the Shah\u2019s time, in a statement recounting the crimes of the Shah and his SAVAK, exposed this strategy. Among them,\u00a0175 political prisoners of the Shah\u2019s time, in their statements in January 2023, recalling their personal experiences and observations of brutal tortures by SAVAK and recalling the heroes who were martyred under torture, strongly condemned the inhumane actions of the remnants of the monarchical dictatorship and reactionary and colonial circles to whitewash SAVAK and the chief executioner of the torturers, Parviz Sabeti.<\/p>\n
Also in January 2023, the fake opposition outfits were trying hard to promote the Shah\u2019s son as an \u201calternative\u201d through propaganda and fake followers, in order to push aside the revolutionary alternative. That same line, considering the illusion of a return to the ousted monarchy, in practice leads to the preservation of the mullahs\u2019 regime, and implies that the current situation is preferred over the replacement of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK).<\/p>\n
Raising the photos of Parviz Sabeti,\u00a0the chief executioner of the Shah\u2019s SAVAK, also took place in that same month. The same person who was in charge of the Shah\u2019s son\u2019s political affairs in the United States, but now both he and the Shah\u2019s son deny it and pretend to be pro-democracy in the United States.<\/p>\n
At the time, the Iranian Resistance had exposed these ridiculous masquerades, reminding that the \u201cfree bus\u201d (as the Shah\u2019s son would call his so-called opposition coalition) that has SAVAK agents as passengers takes freedom and independence-seekers to the cells and execution groundsof Evin Prison.<\/p>\n
The same \u201cfree bus,\u201d which has as its legacy the 1953 coup against Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, and driven by the Shah\u2019s son, was a gift to the heirs of SAVAK and the defectors of the mullahs\u2019 regime.<\/p>\n
The Resistance had warned that this is the road to transition from the turban and cloak of the mullahs to the bloody cloaks and boots of the shah regime.<\/p>\n
And the Resistance had stressed that this deception, betrayal, deviation, and division only benefit the mullahs\u2019 regime.<\/p>\n
From the beginning, the Iranian Resistance has considered the fundamental demarcation of \u201cNeither Shah, Nor Mullahs\u201d as the \u201cguiding light\u201d of the struggle to overthrow the mullahs\u2019 dictatorship and achieve a free and democratic republic in Iran, and in theory and practice, from official positions to the slogan of the operations of the Resistance Units on the streets, it has been loyal to it. It\u2019s the guiding light which is the key to the progress of this resistance and this democratic alternative.<\/p>\n
A hundred years ago, in the absence of an organized resistance and a worthy alternative, foreign powers were able to install Reza Pahlavi as their pawn ruling Iran. He had directly fought in the ranks of the Russian Cossacks against the freedom fighters of Iran\u2019s 1906 Constitutional Revolution. And he came to power with a coup on February 21, 1921, to destroy the achievements of that revolution.<\/p>\n
But now the guiding light of \u201cNeither Shah, Nor Mullahs\u201d and the slogans \u201cDeath to the oppressor, be it the Shah or the Leader\u201d on the streets of Iran during the 2022 uprising and in the demonstrations of compatriots in different countries showed that the \u201cPeople\u2019s Front,\u201d with all its diversity, has no room for the elements of the Shah and the mullahs\u2019 regimes.<\/p>\n
In this regard, the Iranian Resistance, while endorsing and emphasizing the complaint of 3 political prisoners tortured in the Shah\u2019s SAVAK, once again calls on the judiciary and responsible officials in the United States to bring Parviz Sabeti, the Shah\u2019s chief executioner, who was involved in the execution and killing of hundreds of political prisoners and in the torture of thousands of other political prisoners and is one of the most prominent examples of criminals against humanity in contemporary history, to justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"