IRAN'S SECURITY APPARATUS Iran's main security and intelligence has VEVAK as the abbreviation from the Persian name meaning MInistry of Information and Security of the Country. Also Known in English as MOIS (MInistry of Information and Security). The heir to the Shah's national security SAVAK is also known as SAVAMA these days. Many of the SAVAMA agents used to be SAVAK employees and stayed on under the Mullahs. These days, remembering the "good old days" they are often at odds with the clerics. VEVAK learned its methodology from the Soviet KGB and many of the Islamist revolutionaries who supported Ayatollah...