Ahmadinejad’s Iran Pays Price For The BBC
IRAN blocks the BBC signal in Iran. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, twins Tehran with Chicago, says he is the winner and all is hunky-dory. Read his speech in full here. And good news for Britiah citizens to know that freeloaders in Iran will no longer get the BBC for, well, free.
Hurrah for Ahmadinejad. Hurrah! No more Middle East Enders. Hurrah!
BBC audiences in Iran, the Middle East and Europe may be experiencing disruption to their BBC TV or radio services today. That is because there is heavy electronic jamming of one of the satellites the BBC uses in the Middle East to broadcast the BBC Persian TV signal to Iran. Satellite technicians have traced that interference and it is coming from Iran. There has been intermittent interference from Iran since Friday but this is the heaviest yet.
It seems to be part of a pattern of behaviour by the Iranian authorities to limit the reporting of the aftermath of the disputed election. In Tehran John Simpson and his cameraman were briefly arrested after they had filmed the material for this piece.
And at least one news agency in Tehran has come under pressure not to distribute internationally any pictures it might have of demonstrations on the streets in Iran.
Meanwhile in the UK, we are still paying for EastEnders and stuff the rest of the world gets for free…
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June 15th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
I loathe seeing them hurt but if only the protestors can keep these demonstrations in full swing day after day and not back down for the next 10 days, That rabid dog can’t hide the brutal treatment of the demonstrators from the world no matter how hard he tries, reporters he has beat up, cable interruptions…the truth is getting out.
June 15th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Bit more on the wonderful state in Iran
http://news.bbc.co.uk/
June 15th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
It has been announced there is going to actually be a probe into the alleged voting irregularities in their country. Now this probe into any irregularities will take ten days, so they say, before the it will be completed and their decision announced.
Worrisome in a way to me that probe will take so long. So hope in those ten long days Mr. Moussavi doesn’t have a sudden fatal heart attack; fall in his flat and break his neck; stand too close to a window, lose his balance and fall out; take a walk one night to enjoy the evening air and not find his way back.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2009/news/iran.election/
June 15th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Why is one not surprised at what is going on now with live foreign TV broadcasting shut down!
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/14/iran.eyewitness/index.html
June 14th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Tehranian Sq all over again?
June 14th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Blocking the news and videos on what is truly going on over there. Last report before ‘blackout’ on reporting was people were demonstrating in the streets and altercations with the police…wonder how many, if any, are being murdered in the streets ….