Parviz Sabeti
Parviz Sabeti | |
|---|---|
| SAVAK Director, Third General Directorate | |
| In office 1973 – October 31, 1978 | |
| Monarch | Mohammad-Reza Shah |
| Preceded by | Lieutenant General Nasser Moghaddam |
| Succeeded by | Brigadier General Ali Tabatabai |
| Civilian Adjutant to the Royal Court | |
| In office 1969 – October 31, 1978 | |
| National Security Advisor to Prime Minister | |
| In office November 1964 – August 1978 | |
| Prime Minister | Amir-Abbas Hoveyda |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 25 March 1936 Sang-e Sar, Semnan province, Imperial State of Iran |
| Children | Pardis Sabeti |
Parviz Sabeti (Persian: پرویز ثابتی; born March 25, 1936, in Sang-e Sar) is an Iranian lawyer, former SAVAK top deputy under the regime of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Born in Sang-e Sar, Semnan Province. Sabeti received a law degree from the University of Tehran and joined the SAVAK, Iran's intelligence agency in Shah's regime, in 1957, and quickly rose to become the acting director of the SAVAK's so-called third division, the Division of Surveillance and Pursuit, and later became its director.
He has been called one of the most powerful men in the last two decades of the Pahlavi dynasty. Historian Abbas Milani describes him as "like a character from a le Carré novel" and says that "As his fame and reputation grew, his name and face disappeared from the public domain."