Iran has been looking for these sorts of events. In the last couple of years, they trumped up charges (as you would in any show trial) and then “pardoned” the guilty in absence of trial to show “how good natured” the Iranian nutjob is.
Good natured... ;-)
I know what you mean. It does seem that way doesn’t it.
I wonder what the good folks (/s) who desired the Ayatollah to return, think these days. I’ll bet there are a lot of folks in Iran that wish the Shah and his family were still in charge.