From the morning of Monday, October 15th, 2012, all of the mullahs’ TV and radio broadcastings were discontinued by the Hotbird satellite service.
19 television and radio channels, including the mullahs’ News Network, the Jam Jam 1 and 2 networks, the regime’s English-language Press TV network, and the Arabic and Kurdish networks of al-Alam, Sahar and al-Kothar were completely cut-off and no signals from these networks can be received.
Before this development, the mullahs’ suddenly announced through their al-Alam network: “Eutelsat has placed pressure on the Hotbird broadcasting company to cut off its services to the international networks of the Islamic republic, beginning on Monday, October 15th. Therefore, the programs of all the mentioned networks in Hotbird, including al-Alam, Press TV, al-Kothar, the News Network, Sahar 1 and 2, and Jam Jam 1 and 2 will be discontinued.”
For thirty years the mullahs’ regime has jammed various radio and television signals belonging to resistance networks including Radio Sedaye Mojahed, the Simaye Moghavemat TV network and the Simaye Azadi satellite TV network. Recently, even BBC, Voice of America, Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya have also received jamming on their broadcastings. Now, all of a sudden the regime has become a defender of the trend of “open information”.
The regime is now screaming and complaining, “In contrast to the West’s claims of having a trend of open information, the international broadcasting of networks belonging to the Islamic republic of Iran on the Hotbird satellite have been discontinued!”