Director of Press TV Newsroom says the European Union (EU) travel ban on him and the English-language channel’s CEO, Mohammad Sarafraz, shows the channel has been successful in spreading truth to the world.
“There has been no other television outlet, no other television in the world that has come under such huge state-funded attack by the European governments and it shows the extent to which Press TV has been successful,” Hamid Reza Emadi said in an interview with Press TV on Wednesday.
Emadi noted that Press TV has been successful in reporting the ongoing events in the West to its global viewers, and “it shows that the Western countries, which are talking about democracy and human rights, they are not actually doing what they are preaching.”
“Press TV has been able to show the violence on the ground by police force against protesters, the austerity protests in Greece, Spain, [and] even in Britain,” he added.
The Press TV official said that the accusations leveled by the EU for imposing sanctions against him lack legal basis and have been adopted unilaterally without providing evidence.
“They did not bring even one single piece of evidence. They just accuse you of something and then they rule and they pass a judgment and that is against international law,” Emadi said.
On Tuesday, the European bloc blacklisted Press TV CEO Mohammad Sarafraz and Emadi for airing a 10-second report about Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari, who worked for Newsweek in Tehran in 2009 following post-election riots in Iran.
This is while the European Council (EC) officials were totally uninformed about the ban.
Preben Aamann, deputy spokesperson of the President of the EC, in a telephone conversation on Tuesday said that he was not in any position to talk about the issue.
The sanctions on Sarafraz and Emadi are the latest in EU’s campaign against Iran’s English-language news channel.
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