Asharq Al-awsat English- Iran has demanded information from Turkish officials on the murder of an Iranian-origin British businessman who was assassinated in Istanbul on April 29. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Bahram Qassemi said at a press briefing on Monday that they were investigating the assassination of Saaed Karimian, 45, the owner ...

Al-Monitor | Arash Karami: Saeed Karimian, the owner of a popular Dubai-based, Persian-language satellite channel, was gunned down in Istanbul on April 29. Karimians GEM TV, which airs dubbed Western programs into the homes of Iranians, has long been a target of criticism of conservative Iranian officials. In March 2017, Irans judiciary sentenced Karimian ...

Press TV- A Turkish official has cited police as saying that an Iranian gunned down in the Turkish city of Istanbul on Saturday had been involved in a money dispute. Iranian Saeed Karimian and a Kuwaiti business partner of his were driving through the Sariyer district of Istanbul on Saturday when unknown assailants stopped their car and opened ...

IFP - Speculations have increased after the owner of the Persian-language satellite channel GEM TV was shot dead in his car by unidentified people in Istanbul, Turkey, on Saturday. The owner of GEM TV, a group of Persian-language entertainment satellite channels headquartered in Dubai, the UAE, Saeid Karimian, along with his Kuwaiti-...

IRNA An Iranian citizen was shot dead on Saturday night in Istanbul, Turkey. While commuting in a luxury car in Sar?yer city, the two people on board were stopped and assassinated, Turkish newspapers reported. One of the two persons was killed and the other one who was seriously injured was transferred to the hospital. The Turkish website Hrriyet ...

Parisa, an Iranian electronics engineer, has had her roof-top television satellite dishes seized by police four times over the past year and each time she has reinstalled them. The Persian-language programmes aired on those channels from overseas are part of her familys life, especially London-based Manotos broadcasts of documentaries, detective ...

TEHRAN On Sunday, as they do each week, Shahnaz and her elderly mother turned on the smuggled satellite receiver, its dish carefully hidden on the balcony, and sat back to watch their favorite soap opera, The Tulip Age. For months, they had happily immersed themselves in the luxe world of the square-jawed Cinar and the long-legged Yesim, whose complicated ...