Parviz Sabeti
| Parviz Sabeti | |
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| SAVAK Director, counter-terrorism division | |
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In office August 1957 – October 31, 1978 |
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| Monarch | Mohammad-Reza Shah |
| Preceded by | Lieutenant General Nasser Moghaddam |
| Succeeded by | Brigadier General Ali Tabatabai |
| Civilian Adjudant to the Royal Court | |
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In office 1969 – October 31, 1978 |
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| National Security Advisor to Prime Minister | |
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In office November 1964 – August 1978 |
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| Prime Minister | Amir-Abbas Hoveyda |
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| Born | March 25, 1936 Sangsar, Semnan, Iran |
Parviz Sabeti (born March 25, 1936) is an Iranian lawyer, former SAVAK deputy under the regime of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. Born in Sangesar, Semnan province, in north-central Iran, to a Bahá'í family, Sabeti received a law degree from the University of Tehran and joined the SAVAK, Iran's intelligence agency in Shah's regime, in 1957, and quickly rose to become the acting director of the SAVAK’s so-called third division—its political directorate—and later its director.
He has been called one of the most powerful men in the last two decades of Pahlavi regime. Historian Abbas Milani describes him as "like a character from a le Carre novel" and says that "As his fame and reputation grew, his name and face disappeared from the public domain." Sabeti and his family fled Iran after the Islamic Revolution in 1979 Pardis Sabeti, a Harvard biology professor, is his daughter.
Mr. Parviz Sabeti graduated from the Law School of the University of Tehran. He was initially hired as a Judge in the Ministry of Justice. Having shown a keen interest in public policy and politics he was recruited into the SAVAK, which was part of the Prime Minister's office, in 1959. This was a time when a new policy of introducing civilians into an organization staffed by primarily ex-military rank and file was introduce. Initially he worked as a political analyst in the department of internal security and very soon became the head of political analysis where he was in charge of preparing and writing daily, periodical and special reports which went ultimately via the chain of command to the Shah of Iran.
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