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British , alma_mater = , years_active = , occupation = founder and chairman of Gem Televisions Network , spouse = , website = , parents = , relatives = , footnotes = , signature = Saeed Karimian (8 August 1972 – 29 April 2017) was an Iranian television executive, the founder, chairman, and owner of

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, which runs 17

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TV channels, plus one each in

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. Karimian, who was British national, had been tried in absentia by a court in

, and sentenced to a prison term of six years for spreading propaganda against Iran.

Assassination of Saeed Karimian

Karimian was shot dead in

, Turkey, on 29 April 2017, along with his Kuwaiti business partner. According to the exiled Iranian opposition group

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, Karimian was assassinated by the Revolutionary Guard on the orders of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s Supreme Leader. In May 2017, Turkish media reported that two people accused for the assassination of Karimian were arrested in

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with fake passports on their way to Iran.

References

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