Iran starts TV channel for western audience

Iran launched an English-language news channel on Monday designed to broadcast Tehran’s message to a western audience.wow power leveling gas detector
Mohammad Sarafraz, the deputy head of state broadcaster IRIB and in charge of the new venture, Press TV, told Shargh newspaper that the aim was to fill the “gap” in communicating Iran’s official message to the world.
The launch of the satellite channel comes amid a tightening of economic sanctions on Iran as a consequence of its nuclear ambitions. World of Warcraft Gold WOW Gold
Over the past 12 months the US has pressed international banks to avoid dollar transactions with Iran, and the United Nations Security Council has agreed measures designed to persuade Tehran to suspend almost all its nuclear activities.
Iran claims it is a victim of the distorted media coverage over its planned nuclear programme, which it says is for peaceful purposes. The west suspect it might be a covert nuclear weapons plan. Chanel fibreclay LOUIS VUITTON
Tehran is also accused of fomenting insurgency in neighbouring Iraq and Afghanistan.
“Iran has now become the centre of massive propaganda in international media,” Mr Sarafraz said. “Whatever happens somewhere, Iran’s leg is dragged into it . . . Many like to know what Iran has to say.”LPG cylinder
The official launch of Press TV esterday included footage of last summer’s Israel-Lebanon conflict and developments in Iran’s nuclear programme.
Press TV has three correspondents in Iran and outside, including in Washington, New York and London, most of whom are western.
The new channel is scheduled to have three one-hour live round table debates on developments in the Middle East, the US and its foreign policy and developments in other parts of the world. wow powerleveling fibreclay
It is also planning to show important domestic press conferences live, including weekly press conferences of the foreign ministry spokesman.
There are no figures available for how much has been invested in the the project.
IRIB, which is accountable to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, created Al-Alam, a 24-hour Arabic channel, in 2003 after the US invasion of Iraq to target Arabic-speaking viewers in the Middle East, in particular Iraqis.