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 ...

Weeks of protests in Iran highlight Savak, the Shah-era secret police known for repression Shapour Bakhtiar sought Mossad's help in 1979 to assassinate Ayatollah Khomeini in exile Savak was dissolved ...

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 ...

Supporters of Reza Pahlavi, the son of Iran’s deposed shah, have marched through a number of European cities in recent weeks wearing military-style uniforms, carrying flags associated with Savak, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brooklyn post-punk mainstays SAVAK have returned with "Cold Ocean" b/w "Adolescence Obsolete," the latest in a string of ripping new singles. The A-side "Cold Ocean" and its accompanying video were ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

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, ...