The intention of the BBC of creating a new channel in Iran is found the entire opposition of the diet of Ahmadineyad. The last warning comes from the Iranian minister of Culture, Mohammad Hossein Safar-Harandi, who has remembered of that the activities of the new chain of television in Persian of the BBC are prohibited in Iran.

Also, it has thrown a reminder to the team of the BBC in English, which has an office in Teheran, with a British correspondent. "If the BBC in English abuses the opportunity that it has", he has declared, "we will act against her".

"The past of the BBC and of the United Kingdom to create problems and divisions in the country is very clear", there is expresaso the minister.

The BBC threw on January 14 a chain of television in Persian, less than one year after the birth of the BBC Arabic Television, in Arab.


Extensive target

The BBC Persian TV, which it expresses for satellite, is destined for the Iranian market (70 million inhabitants), Afghanistan (20 millions) and Tajikistan (10 millions). They try to continue the stela marked by the radio programs of the BBC, which are much listened in these three countries.

According to the Iranian authorities, at least 30 % of the population takes access to the chains as a satellite foreigners.

The Iranians already take access to a score of chains of television as a satellite in Persian (farsi), between that he emphasizes the Voice of America (VOA).

The British Government has granted 15 million pounds sterling (16,8 million euros) for the throwing of the chain. This international service (the BBC World Service) sustains his financing in the obtiene his resources of the television canon.


BBC Persian TV

(AFP, 22-01-09)