Iranian exiles in the US seek multimillions for years of brutal torture by notorious security chief

A high-ranking security official under the Shah of Iran is being sued by three US residents over lasting physical and psychological wounds they say he inflicted - (Creative Commons; Getty Images)

Three former political dissidents now living in the U.S. are suing the Shah of Iran’s “chief torturer” – who later relocated to Florida and became a real estate developer – over years of unimaginable abuse they say continues to haunt them to this day.

Parviz Sabeti, according to a $225 million lawsuit obtained by The Independent, “is widely recognized as an architect of the institutionalization of torture in Iran, including the use of forced public recantations obtained through torture, a practice developed under his tenure and rapidly expanded and employed by the Islamic Republic of Iran today.”