One of the sections of "Angler - The Cheney Vice Presidency" details the Bush administrations continuous and ongoing attempts to destablize Iran. Cheney met with the son of the Shah repeatedly in an attempt to find a way into the government. His father's rule is an indication of the sincerity of US concerns for the welfare of the Iranian people.

SAVAK (Sazeman-e Ettela'at va Amniyat-e Keshvar, National Intelligence and Security Organization) was the domestic security and intelligence service of Iran from 1957 to 1979. It has been described as Iran's "most hated and feared institution" prior to the revolution of 1979, for its association with the foreign intelligence organizations such as the CIA and its torture and execution of regime opponents.[1][2] At its peak, the organization had as many as 60,000 agents serving in its ranks. It has been estimated that by the time the agency was finally dismantled in 1979 by the Iranian Revolution, as many as one third of all Iranian men had some sort of connection to SAVAK by way of being informants or actual agents.[3]

"After removing the left-leaning government of Mohammad Mosaddeq, (which had planned to nationalize Iran's oil industry), from power on 19 August 1953, in a coup, supported and funded by the British and U.S. governments, the Shah decided he wanted an effective internal security service and set up the large organization known by the acronym SAVAK in 1957[4] to strengthen his regime by placing political opponents under surveillance and repress dissident movements."