An analyst says the Zionist-run Office of Asset Control (OFAC) – an agency of the US Treasury Department – has been granted Å“carte blanche” to launch a campaign against Iranian media and economy, Press TV reports.
Å“Letâ„¢s face the facts here, the Office of Asset Control (OFAC) of the US Treasury Department was handed over to a bunch of hard-line neoconservative arch Zionist Likudnik radical Israeli partisans and those people have been given carte blanche by the US government for some ungodly reason to go after Iran in an all-out monetary war, and an ideological war,” political commentator Kevin Barrett told Press TV in an exclusive interview on Thursday.
Å“They are … trying to shut down the free flow of ideas back and forth between the West and Iran. If they had nothing to fear from the ideas that are coming across on Press TV, al-Alam and the other Iranian channels, this wouldnâ„¢t be a problem,” he said.
The comments come in that wake of a decision by the European communications satellite service provider Intelsat to remove Iranian channels, including Press TV, as of July 1 as part of an unprecedented wave of US-led attacks against Iranian media.
Press TV has learned that OFAC – headed by an Ashkenazi Jew called Adam Szubin – is behind the pressure on Intelsat.
Press TV and other Iranian satellite channels have come under a wave of attacks by European governments and satellite companies since January 2012. They were taken off air in several Western countries, including Britain, France, Germany and Spain.
European companies claim they are abiding by anti-Iran sanctions. However, Michael Mann, the European Union foreign policy chief’s spokesman, has told Press TV that sanctions do not apply to media.
Meanwhile, the French-Israeli CEO of Europe’s satellite giant, Eutelsat, has written letters to several satellite companies, asking them to stop cooperating with Iranian channels, and the Israeli lobby in the United States has openly supported European attempts to ban those channels.
Media activists term the campaign against Iranian media a violation of free speech launched by the same European governments that preach freedom of expression.
Å“Itâ„¢s a case of egregious hypocrisy these people endlessly blabber on about free speech and democracy,” Barrett said.
The analyst noted that the Iranian channels, Press TV in particular, have been targeted by bans because they keep presenting a broader perspective opinion to the world, which is considered a threat to certain powers and the Zionists.
Å“The real issue is that Iran is using its soft power, like these TV channels, to get the truth out to the people of the West and the Zionists are mortally threatened by the truth and they have to kill the messenger.”
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Republished with permission from:: Press TV