Furthermore, critics allege that Yazdani used Ayadi to get an agreement to provide meat to the Iranian armed forces at exaggerated prices. This was the same year, 1970, in which SAVAK was desperately trying to kill General Bakhtiyar, who was living in Iraq at the time and had become a vocal adversary of the shah. When SAVAK agents finally did kill him, it was widely rumored that Yazdani had been instrumental in moving agents across the border into Iraq, disguised as shepherds.