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Iran’s satellite channels to broadcast via domestic Sats

Iran Materials 2 July 2013 14:01 (UTC +04:00)
Iran plans to broadcast its satellite TV channels via domestic satellites, Iranian Al-Alam TV channel quoted on Monday Iran's Minister of Communications and Information Technologies, Mohammad Hussein Nami as saying
Iran’s satellite channels to broadcast via domestic Sats

Azerbaijan, Baku, July 2/ Trend N. Umid/

Iran plans to broadcast its satellite TV channels via domestic satellites, Iranian Al-Alam TV channel quoted on Monday Iran's Minister of Communications and Information Technologies, Mohammad Hussein Nami as saying.

Nami criticizes the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization's (ITSO) ban against Iranian satellite networks and evaluated it as an illegal action.

"This ban contradicts expression of freedom. We have our alternative ways (solutions) and in the new future will launch our communication satellites to space", he said.

Nami did not announce any exact details about time of launching a domestic satellite to space.

A number of Western satellite firms pulled the plug on several Iranian television channels on July 1, he added.

Some Western satellite companies have taken a number of Iranian channels off the air, Press TV reported.

On Monday, satellite companies Hotbird 13-B, Eutelsat 25-C, Eutelsat 21-B, Eutelsat 8-West-A, Intelsat 20, Galaxy 19, and Optus D-2 pulled the plug on the Islamic Republic of Iran's English news channel Press TV.

Iran's Spanish-language channel Hispan TV was removed from satellites Eutelsat 8-West-A, Eutelsat 7-West-A, and Intelsat 21.

Eutelsat 8-West-A also removed Arabic news channel al-Alam.

Iran's general entertainment television network iFilm -- which broadcasts in both English and Arabic --was also taken off the air by Eutelsat 21-B, Eutelsat 25-C, Hotbird 13-B, Eutelsat 7-West-A, Intelsat 20, and Optus D-2.

Broadcasting of another Iranian channel, called al-Kawthar, was stopped by Eutelsat 8-West-A, Eutelsat 7-West-A, and Galaxy 19.

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