Articles by Jim Powell

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How Did Our Friend Iran Become Our Enemy?
Jim Powell - Forbes, 2 Jan 2012

Before the United States goes to war with Iran, as many Americans seem anxious to do, we should first understand how Iran became our implacable enemy. In 1957, CIA secret agents helped the Shah establish SAVAK. If widely-published reports are to be believed, SAVAK had as many as 60,000 secret agents, informers and collaborators. SAVAK’s interrogation methods were said to include rape, extracting fingernails and attaching high voltage power lines to genitals.

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