Head of Iranian state-run TV admits his government sends satellite jamming signals
In a surprise confession, Ezatollah Zarghami, Head of state-run Iranian Broadcast Company, during a speech on Thursday to a group of war veterans, admitted that Iranian government indeed sends illegal satellite jamming signals against foreign broadcast satellites. Zarghami lamented: "Our own Alalam (Arabic broadcast by Iran) was removed from Nile Sat and Arab Sat in retaliation of our (own government's) jamming signals targeting these satellites."
Zarghami also criticized Mohammad Reza Shajarian legendary and popular Iranian vocalist for his reformist and anti-government stances. Zarghami also attacked Juliette Binoche's solidarity with recently-jailed political filmmaker Jafar Panahi, and called the Cannes Film Festival a platform to oppose the Islamic regime in Iran.