The Iranian founder of a Middle Eastern satellite television network accused of spreading Western culture was shot dead in Istanbul alongside a Kuwaiti business partner, Turkey’s Hurriyet newspaper reported on Sunday. Gunmen opened fire on Saeed Karimian, chairman of GEM TV, after cutting off his car with an SUV in Istanbul late Saturday night. Karimian reportedly died immediately after the masked gunmen opened fire on the vehicle, while his business partner died later in a hospital. That Iranian exile group, known by the initials MEK, sided with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s. In a statement, the MEK denied the Iranian claims that Karimian and his father had links to the group.

Source: Fox News April 30, 2017 18:11 UTC