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BBC fails to say Nikhhah became head of Radio TV during Shah era

Along with Mahmoud Jafarian, Parviz Nikkhah were both pardoned during the Shah's time years prior to Jimmy Carter's election.

The Shah did not wait for Carter's crocodile tears to try and make his judiciary more openminded and understanding towards political dissent  as long as the defendants had not committed acts of terror.

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Not only Mahmoud Jafarian, Parviz Nikkhah's death sentences were dropped but the Shah promoted both men to key posts in Radio and Television:

Mahmoud Jafarian became head of Pars News Agency but also deputy director of Iran's National Radio Television with Parviz Nikkhah becoming deputy director of the radio tV service. 

Both were executed after the revolution. 

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If anyone was ever put on televised trial ( or rather a trial aired on television from Court) it was in exceptional cases and only on grounds of terrorist activities (in most cases true) as was the case for Golesorkhi whose fellow culprits were all pardoned and so would have been the case for Golesorkhi himself had he not been so stubborn to refuse all the opportunities extended to him so as not to face capital punishment ... 

During the Shah's time the legal judiciary procedure was respected since Not only Golesorkhi was offered to have a lawyer (which he refused) but was allowed to express himself without the slightest censorship ( which actually contributed to victimizing Golesorkhi and turning him into this "martyred hero" legend and helped publicize his mixed up marxist leninist ideology than it improved the Shah's already hurt image abroad).  

There were no such things as televised trials as those carried out by the Islamic Republic today or in the aftermath of the revolution which were often held in a school only to be followed by the poor devil's immediate execution overnight.

So to compare both systems is outrageous: one where even political prisoners were given a fair trial which respected the standard judiciary procedures and another where a Mob is put in charge as was the case in all the improvised revolutionary courts set up overnight after the revolution's triumph only to carry out arbitrary trials without ever respecting the slightest norm or legal procedure. All the more that whatever legal procedure which has been put up since within the islamic republic's already flawed judiciary system was set up by all these former revolutionary cut throats who already have much explaining to do in this avenue ...

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