As I have so many followers, I have had contracts to advertise online casinos, but they are not mine, I only advertise them,” he said. Mr Sobhani, 33, said he hasn’t spoken to his father in years and that for most of his life he has not lived in Iran. When he returned briefly in 2013, Mr Sobhani admitted to holding clandestine parties and was sentenced to two years in jail but fled the country for Turkey. "In the end I don't have any Iranian friends, because the people there think that I am an enemy of the regime because of the life I lead,” he said. However, he said that those who live abroad see him as his father’s son, who lives a luxurious life because of his family’s wealth. “But I earn the money with my work, nobody has given it to me,” he said.
