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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syria's state TV director dismissed
2011-06-14
[Iran Press TV] Syrian Information Minister Adnan Mahmoud has reportedly dismissed the director of the country's state TV network, Reem Haddad.

In a decree issued on Monday Mahmoud relieved Haddad of all her responsibilities in the state-run Syria television and replaced her with Muan Saleh, IRNA reported.

Haddad had recently told the state-funded BBC in an interview that the crowds of Syrians going across the border to Turkey have relatives there.

"A lot of them find it easy to move across because their relatives are there. It's a bit like having a problem in your street, and your mum lives in the next street, so you go and visit your mum for a bit," Haddad commented.

The Syrian information minister also expelled director of development programs of Syria's state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
on Monday.
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