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 * The Shah Background**

The CIA's plan with Iran was to put in someone that acted as a figure head for Iran but would agree to the CIA's terms that it had for the young Shah. The young Shah of Iran whose name is Reza Pahlavi, was a timid and and inexperienced figure head. In 1953, with CIA backing, the Shah ordered Mossadegh out of office and appointed a Nazi collaborator as his successor. The streets were soon after filled with Mossadegh supporters and the Shah fled to Rome. Then to make things work, the CIA paid pro-Shah demonstrators, who had seized a radio station and announced that the Shah was on his way back and that Mossadegh had been overthrown or deposed. The truth be told that it took nine hours of tank battling in the streets of Tehran, killing hundreds, to get rid of Mossadegh. Compared to the bloodshed that followed, that was nothing. (The CIA's Greatest Hits) It was then concluded that the Shah's CIA-trained security force, SAVAK, had the worst human rights record on the planet, and that the number and variety of torture techniques the CIA had taught SAVAK were "beyond belief" (The CIA's Greatest Hits)

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