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| Former hostage-taker appointed TV chief |
| 2004-05-23 |
| Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Sunday appointed a former hostage-taker and leader of the elite Revolutionary Guards as the head of state-run radio and television. Ezzatollah Zarghami, 45, who was promoted from deputy head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, was among militant students who overran the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and held 52 embassy staffers hostage for 444 days in 1979. He joined Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards as a senior officer in the early 1980s and served for a decade there. The network enjoys a monopoly over Iranian broadcasting and has 12 domestic television and radio channels. |
| Posted by:TS(vice girl) |
| #4 Sheesh, talk about media-terrorist collusion. Here we have the literal fact. I wonder how much attention this will get from the lamestream media? |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-05-24 12:19:53 AM |
| #3 Make sense, in a "Sopranos" sort of way. Put a guy in charge who (1) owes you and (2) is likely to be taken down if you are. You might say that circumstances give good ol' Ezzatollah some "incentive" to keep things quiet on the media front. |
| Posted by: Old Grouch 2004-05-23 9:48:42 PM |
| #2 I think Zarghami's appointment stands as a perfect indicator of just how far Iranian ideology has progressed since 1979. Which is ... exactly zero. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-05-23 8:39:02 PM |
| #1 Islamic devotion . . . check. Approval of the Supreme Leader . . . check. Hatred of Westerners . . . check. Technical skills relevant to new job . . . ??? Three out of four ain't bad, I suppose . . . |
| Posted by: The Doctor 2004-05-23 8:26:30 PM |