International broadcasters condemn Iran over 'jamming'


<!-- S BO --> <!-- S IIMA --> <table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="226"> <tbody><tr><td> http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47285000/jpg/_47285080_bbcpersianbbc226i.jpg BBC Persian Television is one of the channels being jammed by Iran

</td></tr> </tbody></table> <!-- E IIMA --> <!-- S SF -->Three major international broadcasters have strongly condemned Iran for its "deliberate electronic interference" in their broadcasts.
The BBC, Deutsche Welle and Voice of America said the jamming began on Thursday as Iran marked the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.
They said Iran was broadcasting freely around the world while denying its own people programmes coming from outside.
Earlier, the US accused Iran of using a "near-total information blockade".
<!-- E SF -->A state department spokesman said there were strong indications that the telephone network had been taken down, SMS messages blocked, and internet communication "throttled".
"Iran has attempted a near total information blockade," PJ Crowley said.
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Joint statement by the BBC, Deutsche Welle and Voice of America

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</td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!-- E IBOX --> "It is clear that the Iranian government fears its own people."
White House spokesperson Robert Gibbs meanwhile said that the web giant, Google, and other internet service providers had been "unplugged" in Iran.
Reporters Without Borders says the blocking of Google's Gmail e-mail system takes the drive to control cyber-space to a new stage.
But the organisation claims that most Iranian internet users know how to sidestep censorship and access blocked websites.
Correspondents say a number of governments - notably China and Burma, as well as Iran - make strenuous efforts to block modern internet communications among their opponents.
'Accurate and impartial'
The BBC, Deutsche Welle and Voice of America said the Iranian authorities' jamming was affecting services on the Hotbird satellite, which covers audiences across Europe and the Middle East.
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</td></tr> </tbody></table> <!-- E IIMA --> These include BBC Persian Television, the Voice of America Television Channel in Persian and Radio Farda; and Deutsche Welle's Television and Radio services. BBC World News - the English-language channel - was also jammed.
"We condemn any jamming of these channels. It contravenes international agreements and is interfering with the free and open flow of international transmissions that are protected by international treaties," the broadcasters said in a joint statement.
"The Iranian authorities are using the same satellite services to broadcast freely around the world including broadcasts in English and Arabic; at the same time they are denying their own people programmes coming from the same satellites from the rest of the world," they added.
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<!-- end of the embedded player component --> <!-- END of Inline Embedded Media --> On Thursday, a day-long security clampdown in the Iranian capital Tehran succeeded in preventing large-scale opposition protests as the nation commemorated the Islamic Revolution.
The opposition turnout was dwarfed by huge crowds at the state-run celebrations in the centre of Tehran.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressed the rally, saying Iran was now a "nuclear state" and had produced its first stock of 20% enriched uranium.
But the White House said the assertion was based more on politics than science.

source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8511921.stm

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Eutelsat renews jamming complaint & seeks ITU help

February 15th, 2010 - 14:03 UTC <address class="author vcard">by Andy Sennitt (http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/eutelsat-renews-jamming-complaint-seeks-itu-help). </address>
Eutelsat Communications has renewed its complaint to the ANFR (the French national frequency agency) about repeated and deliberate interference targeting satellite transmissions by television and radio channels that include BBC Persian Television, the Voice of America Television Channel in Persian, the Radio Farda service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and Deutsche Welle’s Television and Radio services.
The complaint, officially channelled through the Eutelsat International Intergovernmental Organisation, specifically asks the ANFR to renew its objection to this interference to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and for this case to be addressed at the next meeting of the Radiocommunications Regulations Board, scheduled in March. Eutelsat asks that its complaint be addressed by the ITU as a priority issue.
This call for action to French and international regulatory authorities follows appeals made by Eutelsat since May 2009 to put an end to this interference.
(Source: Eutelsat)
Andy Sennitt comments: Since the complaint was sent on Friday, the inteference has already ceased.

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BBC Persian TV presenters Nader Soltanpour (right) and Farnaz Ghazizadeh before the channel’s launch last year.
Iran (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/iran) is facing mounting international protests about its jamming of the BBC’s Persian TV service (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jun/15/iran-bbc-persian-service) (PTV) after the channel – which has millions of viewers and is hugely popular with opposition supporters – was taken off a satellite owned by Europe’s leading operator.
The BBC (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/bbc) said today it was “actively supporting” a formal complaint to the International Telecommunication Union, a UN-affiliated body, about “deliberate interference” from Iran. The ITU confirmed it had received representations from regulators in France, home to Eutelsat, owner of the Hotbird 6 satellite, which suspended PTV’s transmissions last month.
German state broadcaster Deutsche Welle said it too would protest about interference with its Persian-language radio broadcasts. Voice of America Persian TV programmes have also been jammed.
The BBC said it was “determined” to carry on broadcasting PTV and is telling viewers how to adjust their satellite dishes to receive programmes via Eutelsat’s Telstar 2 satellite, out of range of jamming from inside Iran.
Eutelsat says PTV was removed from Hotbird 6 “in agreement” with the BBC, though sources close to the affair say the operator caved in to commercial and legal pressures from other customers broadcasting on the same transponder.
Another Eutelsat satellite, Hotbird 8, provides capacity to Iranian state broadcasting channels, including the English-language Press TV, which has offices in London. “We had to make a business decision,” a Eutelsat spokeswoman said.
Iranian opposition supporters are accusing satellite operators of “siding with dictators”. Eutelsat and GlobeCast, a France Télécom subsidiary which leases bandwidth from Eutelsat, refuse to say publicly that the Iranian government is responsible for the jamming.
“It makes me angry that we are the victims of jamming by the Iranian government and the Iranian government is still able to use Hotbird for its own programmes,” said one BBC source. “We are the victims and they are the perpetrators.”
PTV was launched (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/08/persia-tv-ptv-bbc) a year ago this week to Iranian fury. Sporadic jamming began after last June’s disputed presidential elections but intensified in late December after the death of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, a revered cleric associated with the opposition Green movement, which triggered a new round of demonstrations.
Tehran has repeatedly attacked PTV as an arm of the British government, which it accuses of seeking to foment a “velvet revolution”. Last week it included the BBC on a list of 60 “subversive” international organisations. Britain and Iran are at odds over Iran’s nuclear programme, Israel, and other Middle Eastern issues.
The BBC said in a statement that it was exploring other options with Eutelsat. “We will try every avenue to give our large audiences in Iran the television news services that they want,” said Peter Horrocks, World Service director.
Iran has gone to extraordinary lengths to block TV broadcasts it considers hostile. Signals transmitted from the US, beyond reach of Iranian jamming, have occasionally been jammed from Cuban territory, triggering US protests.
But hopes of a response from Tehran to these latest complaints are slim as the Geneva-based ITU has no enforcement power and is widely seen as toothless.
Iranian viewers are angry and frustrated. “We Iranians are now under repression,” one PTV fan said. “We are passing another turning point in our history and we need unbiased news more than ever.” Another told the BBC: “People have been left with an utter lack of information … Perhaps you don’t realise the extent of your influence on Iranian society.”
“Iranians keep asking me why the west is so powerless,” Sadeq Saba, head of PTV, wrote on his blog. “They say: ‘This is a rogue government jamming international signals. How will the west stop Iran getting nuclear weapons if they can’t deal with this?’”
Source: Guardian

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