Controversies
Sharitmadari has been accused of playing a key role in the violent interrogations in Iranian prisons, where torture is used. As the Director of Kahyan, Shariatmadari has been involved in several controversies. For example, in 2009, during the first contested presidential elections, Shariatmadari was announced that ' Ayatollah Mohammad Khatami would risk the same fate of Benazir Bhutto if he was elected. After the elections, alongside the Green Party protests, Shariatmadari accused Mir Hossein Mousavi of being a fifth column of the US and causing the deaths of many people.
Furthermore, the wife of Nicolas Sarkozy, Carla Bruni has also been at the receiving end of Kahyan reporting. Bruni was accused of being an "Italian prostitute" for her defense of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the woman sentenced to death in 2007 in Iran for adultery. In addition, on 17 April 2012 Shariatmadari published an editorial in which he stressed Iran's right to enrich uranium to 99%.
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