{"id":379444,"date":"2018-10-03T02:58:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T01:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-probes-saudi-funded-tv-for-praising-iran-attack\/"},"modified":"2018-10-03T02:58:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T01:58:17","slug":"presstv-uk-probes-saudi-funded-tv-for-praising-iran-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-probes-saudi-funded-tv-for-praising-iran-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-UK probes Saudi-funded TV for praising Iran attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The UK\u2019s media regulator Ofcom is investigating a\u00a0TV channel based in the country with direct links to Saudi Arabia which condoned a recent terrorist attack in Iran that killed 24 people, including children.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are assessing this news program as a priority against our broadcasting rules,\u201d a spokesperson of Ofcom told the <em>Guardian <\/em>newspaper on Monday more than two weeks after Iran International aired an interview with the spokesman of a banned terrorist group which hailed the attack on a military parade in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yacoub Hor al-Tostari, the spokesman of the al-Ahvaziyah terrorist group, appeared in an interview with Iran International praising the attack in Ahvaz.<\/p>\n<p>There were earlier reports indicating that al-Ahvaziyah had claimed the responsibility for the attack in Ahvaz. However, the group later withdrew the claims. Daesh, a Takfiri terrorist group, which has almost been obliterated from its&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/02\/575861\/UK-Ofcom-Saudi-TV-Ahvaz-terror-attack\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK\u2019s media regulator Ofcom is investigating a\u00a0TV channel based in the country with direct links to Saudi Arabia which condoned a recent terrorist attack in Iran that killed 24 people, including children. \u201cWe are assessing this news program as a priority against our broadcasting rules,\u201d a spokesperson of Ofcom told the Guardian newspaper on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-379444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}