Teymur Bakhtiar , first president of SAVAK

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Bakhtiar rose rapidly in homeland’s military after the fall of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadeq in 1953. A close associate of Prime Minister Fazlollah Zahedi, he was promoted to military governor of capital.

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