He's the influential interior minister. A former Revolutionary Guard, Besharati was one of the students who seized the U.S. embassy in 1979. His latest action was to unsuccessfully ban Iran's embarrassingly popular satellite dishes-which he views as instruments of Western filth-when he learned that Star Trek and Baywatch were getting better ratings than Muslim Mullahs! Live From Mahabad! and Good Morning, Tehran-with Ali Mohammed Besharati.
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