Re: Tehran Hostage Taker Promoted
Date: May 24, 2004
There's an old adage, "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished"... Clearly this brings about a new adage, "No Bad Deed Goes Unrewarded."
" Former
Hostage-Taker Appointed Chief of Iranian Television
The Associated Press
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's supreme leader on Sunday appointed a former captor in the 1979 hostage crisis as the head of state-run radio and television.
Conservative Ezzatollah Zarghami, 45, was promoted by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei from his post as deputy head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting.
Zarghami was among militant students who overran the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and held 52 embassy staffers hostage for 444 days in 1979.
Zarghami joined Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards as a senior officer in the early 1980s and served for a decade there.
IRIB enjoys a monopoly over Iranian broadcasting. It has 12 domestic television and radio channels and offers radio programs in 25 languages, including Arabic and Hebrew.
Khamenei appoints the head of IRIB and other key officials."
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