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2020-06-12 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Iran's debt-ridden international broadcasters face closure
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[al-Monitor] Accumulated debt in foreign currency is heralding a grim fate upon a large network of state-funded TV channels Iran
 ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
has been building over decades to wage what it calls the "soft war" against its western enemies. Among those hardest-hit and facing imminent closure are the international 24-hour English news channel Press TV and its Arabic sister al-Alam owned by a larger organization known as the Islamic Theocratic Republic Public of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB).
Oh NOES! Where will we get our Farsi agitprop and Anti-American loony lefties?
The IRIB World Service director Peyman Jebelli told Iranian media outlets that he expects both television stations, which target foreign audiences, "to be taken off the air in the days or weeks to come." He accused the government of President Hassan Rouhani
...Iran's moderate president, which he is, relative to his predecessor, which doesn't mean he's anything but a puppet of the nearest holy man...
of failing to grasp the looming "disaster" facing the IRIB’s overseas branch. According to Jebelli, Rouhani’s Planning and Budget Organization has denied the IRIB World Service its share in the state-allocated foreign currency for five months in a row. "Not even a single dollar or euro," he said, has been provided to help those channels pay their outstanding debts to satellite operators.
The Rouhani government has been grappling with a worsening financial crisis triggered by the US "maximum pressure" policy, which the administration of President Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
has been relentlessly pursuing since May 2018, after withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal. The campaign has severely restricted the Islamic Theocratic Republic ’s access to international banking systems and has scared away customers of Iran’s crude oil, the main supply line for its much-needed hard foreign currency.
The IRIB is affiliated to and directly supervised by the office of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...
. However,
women are made to be loved, not understood...
for much of its spending, the broadcaster relies on the elected government, with a specified share in the annual state budget. Political differences between the moderate Rouhani administration and the ultraconservative decision-makers leading the IRIB have turned more bitter than ever in recent years, with the broadcaster facing accusations of biased coverage against Rouhani and his policies. The state TV particularly infuriated the Rouhani camp after airing a controversial series that harshly attacked the team of negotiators who engaged in marathon talks with Western powers that culminated in the 2015 nuclear deal.
It was not immediately clear if the IRIB’s shrinking foreign currency was rooted in the older feuds with the government. But Jebelli has time and again pointed out negative intentions behind the decision, suggesting that the broadcaster’s mission was falling victim to partisan brinkmanship and a "stubborn" tug of war.
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