Stalinist Show Trials: Part Four (Source: Tehranbureau.com)
This tehranbureau.com analysis of the show trials mentioning Kian claims that:
“Once again, the “indictment” was not a legal document, but a political manifesto of the hardliners, almost all of which had been published over the past few years by the daily newspaper Kayhan, the mouthpiece of the security-intelligence apparatus, and Fars News Agency, which operates more like a propaganda machine.”