In 1955, the person who is sent from the US to be kind of in charge of training Saafak personnel is General Norman Schwarzkopf. It's really not until about a decade later that Saafak starts training its own personnel. In 1959, the US Army sent another mission to the U- to Iran led by a less well known figure by the name of Colonel Charles McLean Peake. He was charged with reforming and training the Imperial Gendarmerie and also the Iranian National Police Force.
Featuring Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran. This is the third episode in our four-part series. We pick up in the wake of the US-British 1953 coup against Mossadegh, assess the Shah's repression and attempts to manufacture consent through passive revolution, and then close by laying out the 1979 Islamic Revolution in all of its wild complexity.
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