{"id":27013,"date":"2013-02-09T18:55:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T17:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2013\/02\/09-2"},"modified":"2013-02-09T18:55:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T17:55:10","slug":"us-pulls-plug-on-iran-cable-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/us-pulls-plug-on-iran-cable-news-2\/","title":{"rendered":"US Pulls Plug on Iran Cable News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As part of the United States expansive new sanctions<\/a> against Iran, North American cable networks have pulled the plug on the country’s state-run, English-language news network Press TV.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/span>Calling the move a “flagrant violation of freedom of speech,” Press<\/span> TV<\/span> announced Saturday that they had been dropped from the Galaxy 19 satellite platform which had previously broadcast the channel in the United States and Canada.<\/p>\n

New sanctions announced by the US Treasury Department this week blacklisted Iran’s state-run television network, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), as well as its director, Ezatollah Zarghami.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo long as Iran continues to fail to address the concerns of the international community about its nuclear program, the U.S. will impose tighter sanctions […] against the Iranian regime,\u201d David S. Cohen, Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, said in a statement.<\/a> \u201cWe will also target those in Iran who are responsible for human right abuses, especially those who deny the Iranian people their basic freedoms of expression, assembly and speech.\u201d<\/p>\n

According<\/a> to Al Jazeera<\/em>, IRIB launched Press TV, Hispan and Arabic-language news channel Al-Alam in order to reach a wider global audience to broadcast world news and communicate pro-government views beyond Iran’s borders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As part of the United States expansive new sanctions<\/a> against Iran, North American cable networks have pulled the plug on the country’s state-run, English-language news network Press TV.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/span>Calling the move a “flagrant violation of freedom of speech,” Press<\/span> TV<\/span> announced Saturday that they had been dropped from the Galaxy 19 satellite platform which had previously broadcast the channel in the United States and Canada.<\/p>\n

New sanctions announced by the US Treasury Department this week blacklisted Iran’s state-run television network, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), as well as its director, Ezatollah Zarghami.<\/p>\n

“So long as Iran continues to fail to address the concerns of the international community about its nuclear program, the U.S. will impose tighter sanctions […] against the Iranian regime,” David S. Cohen, Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, said in a statement.<\/a> “We will also target those in Iran who are responsible for human right abuses, especially those who deny the Iranian people their basic freedoms of expression, assembly and speech.”<\/p>\n

According<\/a> to Al Jazeera<\/em>, IRIB launched Press TV, Hispan and Arabic-language news channel Al-Alam in order to reach a wider global audience to broadcast world news and communicate pro-government views beyond Iran’s borders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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