S̲ābitī, Parvīz

Parviz Sabeti (Persian: پرویز ثابتی; born 25 March 1936) is an Iranian lawyer and former intelligence officer who was a former SAVAK deputy under the regime of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. From 1978 to 1979, he served as the final Deputy Director of SAVAK. 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 the Shah's regime, in 1957. He 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 era. 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." In February 2025, three former political dissidents residing in the United States filed a lawsuit against Sabeti. The plaintiffs accuse Sabeti of orchestrating and overseeing their torture during the 1970s.