Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has slammed the West’s attempts to take Iranian channels off the air, saying such measures are doomed to failure.
“This is natural that they (the Western powers) make every effort to prevent the spread of Iranian nation’s humane message, but they will not succeed,” Ahmadinejad said on Saturday.

The Iranian president also added that it is necessary for the Islamic Republic to become independent from Western satellite providers.
“We should have our own satellite and even if necessary, we should build one,” Ahmadinejad pointed out.
In recent months, European satellite operators have launched a concerted campaign to silence Iran’s international broadcasters.

In the most recent move, the European satellite provider Eutelsat pulled the plug on Iran’s Arabic-language channel, al-Alam.

Eutelsat’s Israeli-French CEO Michel De Rosen has stepped up his restrictive campaign by appealing to major satellite providers in Europe and Asia to silence Iranian media.

The campaign has revealed the true face of the West, which preaches respect for human rights and free speech but practices the opposite.

On February 20, the Arab satellite provider Gulfsat banned Iranian channels iFilm and Al-Kawthar under direct pressure from Eutelsat.

The encroachment upon freedom of speech targeting movie channel, iFilm, and Iran's Arabic-language Al-Kawthar came one day after Eutelsat asked Nilesat to take Iran's English-language news channel Press TV off the air.

By Press TV

 

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