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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Iran Broadcasting VP: Zionist system controls world mainstream news channels

Zionist system controls world mainstream news channels: IRIB VP
PRESS TV (Iran) Thu Jan 31, 2013 11:41AM GMT
http://presstv.com/detail/2013/01/31/286545/zionists-system-controls-news-channels/

Following a new round of attacks against the Iranian media, the Vice
President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), Dr. Mohammad
Sarafraz, says the Zionist system controls all the mainstream news channels
in the world.

“Because they [the Zionist system] want to proceed with their own economic
agendas, they have to control people’s thoughts and they achieved this by
controlling the largest news channels throughout the world,” Sarafraz said
during a ceremony to mark the first anniversary of Iran’s Spanish-language
news channel, Hispan TV, in Tehran on Wednesday.

“If a news channel comes and it is an alternative news channel, then the
Zionist system wants it removed,” he added.

The event comes after the Spanish government ordered Madrid’s regional
government to stop Hispan TV's broadcast as of January 21 in another blow to
freedom of speech.

Hispan TV, along with Iran's 24-hour English-language news channel, Press
TV, have been already targeted by Hispasat's fellow European satellite
providers Eutelsat and Hotbird.

Hispasat is partly owned by Eutelsat, whose French-Israeli CEO is blamed for
the recent wave of attacks on Iranian media in Europe.

The IRIB vice president denounced the move as a violation of freedom of
speech and said, “The US talks about being the biggest advocate of human
rights, free speech and democracy, yet it supported dictators and kings of
Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.”
“It is worried about losing power in the Middle East especially since many
of its allies such as [ousted] Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak and Tunisia’s dictator
bin Ali and others have been removed from power,” Sarafraz pointed out.

The ban on Press TV and Hispan TV in Spain followed a similar move by
France's Eutelsat company, which had already taken several Iranian satellite
channels and radio stations off the air, claiming that the channels were
removed because of “a wider interpretation of EU regulations.”

Eutelsat SA and Intelsat SA, which stopped the broadcast of several Iranian
satellite channels in October, 2012, have cited pressure by the European
Union as the main reason.

The EU has, however, denied the claims by the European satellite companies.

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