Investigating the power of repression and state violence: a case study of the second Pahlavi regime

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 assistant professor at Supreme National Defense University, National Security Department

2 Professor Political Science Department Humanities School Shahed University

3 Doctorate in Political Studies of the Islamic Revolution, Faculty of Humanities, Shahid University

Abstract
During the years 1332 to 1357, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi used the method of maintaining political stability through force and repression. Like his father, his regime eventually relied on oil revenues and the military; it was even more heavily dependent on the United States. The main purpose of this article is to study the power of repression and violence in the Pahlavi regime. The data collection method is a qualitative analysis of the type of documentary analysis and the tools of text and fish collection that have been performed using Visio software software. In this article, the violence of the Pahlavi regime is examined in three political, cultural, and social dimensions, and the tools of violence are examined in two categories: intelligence, security, and military. He himself resorted to repression and violence; he used all aspects of political, cultural, and social violence through the military and SAVAK and the Joint Anti-Sabotage Committee to carry out these programs for his own benefit; The second was the victory of the Islamic Revolution

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