in 2017, saeed karimian was assassinated on the streets of istanbul. he ran a series of tv channels, gem tv, that aired western movies and series to iran. in the eyes of islamic regime, the programmes were against islamic values. at the time, i was the bbc correspondent there. well, our correspondent, jiyar gol, joins us now from istanbul. some other people on social media, they say there was a lot of murky businesses. it might be actually some sort of business feud or gang-related issue. but what we know definitely - iranian regime wasn't happy with the kind of programme he was showing. siren wails just two years later, masoud molavi vardanjani, a former member of the iranian revolutionary guards who had defected, was assassinated in istanbul. gunshots he'd been publishing details of corruption at the highest level in the iranian leadership on his telegram account called black box. an iranian diplomat on his way to tehran was arrested in istanbul airport in connection with the plot, but was later released after he claimed diplomatic immunity. i got ho

in 2017, saeed karimian was assassinated on the streets of istanbul. he ran a series of tv channels, gem tv, that aired western movies and series to iran. in the eyes of islamic regime, the programmes were against islamic values. at the time, i was the bbc correspondent there. well, our correspondent, jiyar gol, joins us now from istanbul. some other people on social media, they say there was a lot of murky businesses. it might be actually some sort of business feud or gang-related issue. but what we know definitely - iranian regime wasn't happy with the kind of programme he was showing. siren wails just two years later, masoud molavi vardanjani, a former member of the iranian revolutionary guards who had defected, was assassinated in istanbul. gunshots he'd been publishing details of corruption at the highest level in the iranian leadership on his telegram account called black box. an iranian diplomat on his way to tehran was arrested in istanbul airport in connection with the plot, but was later released after he claimed diplomatic immunity. i got ho

in 2017, saeed karimian was assassinated on the streets of istanbul. he ran a series of tv channels, gem tv, that aired western movies and series to iran. in the eyes of islamic regime, the programmes were against islamic values. at the time, i was the bbc correspondent there. well, our correspondent, jiyar gol, joins us now from istanbul. some other people on social media, they say there was a lot of murky businesses. it might be actually some sort of business feud or gang-related issue. but what we know definitely - iranian regime wasn't happy with the kind of programme he was showing. siren wails just two years later, masoud molavi vardanjani, a former member of the iranian revolutionary guards who had defected, was assassinated in istanbul. gunshots he'd been publishing details of corruption at the highest level in the iranian leadership on his telegram account called black box. an iranian diplomat on his way to tehran was arrested in istanbul airport in connection with the plot, but was later released after he claimed diplomatic immunity. i got ho