After years living quietly in Florida, Shah of Iran’s alleged ‘chief torturer’ must face accusations in court | Iran

NThe eights in Windermere’s luxury Florida community know them as Peter and Nancy, a friendly retired couple, who seems to have shook during the morning walks and always seem to visit two highly flying girls, one of the friendly professors at Harvard University.

Nevertheless, behind the high walls of the $ 3.6 million lake coast lies a darker, closer protected reality: “Peter” is actually the Parviz Sabet of the old Shah of the old Shah of Iran, now 225 million dollar lawsuit For the atrocities committed in Tehran and other places in Florida.

The judge of a regional court ruled last month that 89-year-old Sabet had established a new life for himself and his family since he escaped from his homeland in 1978, and that three plaintiffs who described their own as former political prisoners should be confronted with the accusations of the court.

In the court applications, the plaintiffs say that they are among thousands of people gathered as the perceived opponents of the Shah. SluiceIran’s malicious ruthless internal security and intelligence agency and rape, electric shocks, close shots and forced nail removal, including the personal aspects of Sabet’s personal aspects of abuse.

In particular, a barbarian equipment piece was Apollo, an electric chair called the US’s early space program, and contained a metal helmet that raised the screams of the victims to their ears.

Sabet did not respond to the public allegations in the court applications, but previously rejected Savak’s torture to the detainees and claimed that it was.Always opposing torture”.

Although Sabet’s location is not known for the best part of 45 years, it was claimed that the Iranian government’s position in the Iranian government and Savak’s persecution as the director of the internal security department.

It was defined as a secret as a fiercely loyal ally of the Shah Analysis by the US Center Intelligence Agency (CIA) Written in 1978, it was not published until 2018 and “Most Strong and feared men With the authority to capture, question and prosecute competitors throughout the country ”, according to the case.

The estimates vary according to the number of victims of Savak between the establishment of the agency in 1957 and the disintegration of 1979, but thousands of people detained and torturedat least hundreds of more killed.

The three plaintiffs claim that they were kidnapped by Savak in Tehran, giving false confessions and serving the prison time. The case of rejection of the case of violating the limitation of Sabet’s lawyers was rejected by Gregory Presnell, the judge of the Regional Court of Florida on 12 August. A hearing can be held at the beginning of next year.

According to the case, the Sabet “has passed the public eyes for the last forty years, hidden where he was and his identity”. If he and his wife were 75 -year -old Nasrin, if he was not accidentally “outside ı by one of his daughters, he could have been hidden Tweet in February 2023 He condemned Iran’s Islamic government at a rally in Los Angeles.

The explanation may be accidentally and lead the plaintiffs to find themselves and open the case, while others believe that the Iranian diaspora in the United States “sterilize the history of the former Shah’s dismissed government and to create a new office acceleration.

Reza Pahlavi, who sometimes called the “Crown Prince of Crown” as the son of former Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, said in a 2023 interview to Guardian at the summit of anti -threatening protests, working with the Allies to prepare a charter for any new Iranian government. Since then, he described himself as the supreme leader, ready to replace Ayatullah Ali Khamenei and Be a temporary president.

By the way, sabet, a 2023 Articles He was sent to the website of the National Resistance Council against Iran, depicting the coalition of the Iranian political figures as a parliament in exile.

Guardian’s efforts to reach Sabet have failed, including calls and calls to home, and messages looking for comments to four lawyers listed in court documents.

We have escaped from Tehran only weeks before the 1979 Islamic Revolution of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Sabetis, Leaked Ministry of Foreign Affairs Documents We were able to transfer a large amount of money from Iran – he said that it was over 20 million dollars by a source – after arriving, they won their first names to Peter and Nancy.

Using these false names, Sabet founded the one who would be a successful real estate development company in the center of Florida. Sabet, his wife and two daughters are still listed as the director of active companies in the work database of Florida.

Public records seen by Guardian show that the Sabet family has at least eight properties, including five bedrooms purchased for $ 3.5 million in Orange County in Orange County.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the CIA did not respond to questions about Sabetis’ immigration status in the United States or for the first time in 1978. However, both Parviz and Nasrim Sabet are organizing active voters in Florida and the records show that they vote in the 2024 Presidential elections, that is, both are US citizens.

A neighbor, the couple often said that Nasrim was walking, but that he would see that Sabetis mostly valued his privacy. Their houses were almost always quiet except for their occasional visits of their daughters.

Both daughters did not respond to the request for comments.

Florida’s Republican Chief Public Prosecutor James Uthmeier did not answer the question of whether Sabet would initiate a criminal investigation on the activities of Sabet, as for other people who were previously accused of overseas crimes in Florida.

Sara Colón, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, welcomed the order of the anonymity of the customers who said that they have been given death threats and intimidation since they rejected the dismissal of Sabet’s Sabet’s dismissal.

“These decisions are a positive result for the survivors of the torture seeking to be accountable and justice. This case is not only terminated, but also to confirm that the survivors have the right to follow justice and have the right to reclaim their honor without fear.”

Iranian justice and accountability collective, a defender group for victims of torture and their families, said that the Sabet’s case would end a “cycle of violence” in Iran during the Shah’s regime and the Islamic fundamentalist government that succeeded.

“The message should be clear and simple: all victims deserve justice and everyone who dealt with torture and pressure should be responsible,” he said.

“The roots of the brutal policies carried out by the Islamic Republic of Iran today depend on the methods of torture issued by Sabet and Savak. [The case] It should stop as the rejection of a future Iran trying to provide blanket forgiveness to the current security forces involved in torture and oppression.

“Through justice and accountability, which we can overcome the terrible violence and oppression that has ruled Iran for decades.”