Iran's English-language Press TV (launched in 2007) has become so popular in England, and has taken so much audience share, that Ofcom, the British TV regulator, is preparing to ban it.

Ofcom's excuse is that in 2009, Press TV aired ten seconds of an interview with detained Newsweek correspondent Maziar Bahari.

Maziar Bahari is an Iranian Canadian reporter for Newsweek from 1998 to 2011. As a Jew-lover, he made a film, “The Voyage of the Saint Louis,” about the attempt by 937 German Jews to leave Germany on that ship in 1939, who were turned away by both Cuba and the United States, and ultimately disembarked in England. In this way, Bahari proudly became the first Muslim to make a film about the holo-hoax.

On 21 June 2009, during the 2009 Iranian Election Protests, Bahari was arrested at his family's home in Tehran. In July 2009, while incarcerated, he appeared in a televised confession (ten seconds of which was broadcast internationally by PressTV) telling his interviewer that Western journalists worked as spies; that he had covered "illegal demonstrations" and "illegal gatherings", and was helping promote a "color revolution" (US-backed regime change).

On 20 Oct 2009 he was allowed to return to London days before the birth of his daughter. Bahari then spent his time giving interviews in which he denounced Ira and PressTV.

Now, two years later, Ofcom, wants to ban PressTV to remove the competition, and to punish PressTV for not always defending the British plutocracy.

The British government was angered by PressTV’s coverage of the government's violent crackdown on peaceful student protests in November 2010, plus the rioting that broke out across England in early August 2011. The British government was also angered by PressTV’s coverage of the massive sales of British arms to autocratic Arab states in the Middle East and North Africa such as Bahrain, in order to help them crush the pro-democracy protests there.

Ofcom itself is made up of former Channel 4 and BBC executives, many of whom are Zionist Jews. Colette Bowe, the Ofcom chairperson, is paid a salary of £200,000 a year ($320,000) to defend the plutocracy. 

>>NOTE: Ofcom says it has not yet made a decision. PressTV is available by satellite on the Sky platform in England, which means that British interests are making money on the chanel. Hence it is possible that Ofcom is simply making this threat in order to tell Press TV that Ofcom wants the chanel to be more like the worthless Al-Jazeera.

Submitted by Heydrich on Wed, 2011-10-26 11:19

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