Russia hopes to launch a satellite observation system for the Islamic Republic of Iran in two years. We hope to sign the satellite launch contract by the middle of April. If the contract is signed, the launch may take place at the end of 2018, Leonid Macridenko, the head of the Russian Space Monitoring Systems, Information & Control and Electromechanical ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iran University of Science and Technology and Russia's Kazan Federal University have signed an agreement to build and launch satellites into space, academic officials declared on Saturday, adding that the two academic centers have also taken up to cooperate in other areas of research as well. "The Iran University of Science and ...

By AFP WASHINGTON International satellite services provider Intelsat has blocked Iran's official broadcast channels in Europe, a company spokesman said Thursday. But it would not confirm or deny an Iranian report that it did so at the order of the US government. "Intelsat confirms that we took IRIB (Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting) ...

By Associated Press PARIS (AP) -- European satellite provider Eutelsat has taken 19 Iranian television and radio broadcasters off the air as a result of European Union sanctions. Eutelsat spokeswoman Vanessa O'Connor says the channels operated by Iranian state broadcaster Irib have been blocked for viewers in Europe and elsewhere as of Monday ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Commander of Basij (volunteer) Force Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi said enemies are striving hard to impair Iran's Islamic Revolution through different means, but to no avail. "Using the culture (promoted) by satellite (channels) and other soft war tactics along with economic war are among the enemy means to defeat the Iranian ...

The Iranian Parliaments research centre reports that government policies on satellite usage in the country have not succeeded and need to be reconsidered. In a report released on Tuesday August 12, the centre says the ban on satellite equipment and usage has not been an effective policy. The report indicates: An investigation into the use of satellites,...

GREENBELT, Md. (AP) -- Closing arguments are expected Wednesday in the trial of an Iranian-American man living in Maryland who allegedly helped Iran launch a satellite from Russia, a violation of a trade embargo the United States has against the Middle Eastern country. Nader Modanlo's trial began in late April in federal court in Greenbelt, Md. Prosecutors ...

GREENBELT, Md. An Iranian-American man living in Maryland is going on trial for allegedly helping Iran launch a satellite from Russia, a violation of a trade embargo the United States has against the Middle Eastern country. Nader Modanlos trial is set to begin Tuesday in federal court in Greenbelt with jury selection. Prosecutors say Modanlo brokered ...

Parisa, an Iranian electronics engineer, has had her roof-top television satellite dishes seized by police four times over the past year and each time she has reinstalled them. The Persian-language programmes aired on those channels from overseas are part of her familys life, especially London-based Manotos broadcasts of documentaries, detective ...

[caption id="attachment_24170" align="alignright" width="300"] French company GlobeCast has halted the broadcast of Irans Spanish-language Hispan TV on an SES satellite.[/caption] French company GlobeCast has halted the broadcast of Irans Spanish-language Hispan TV on an SES satellite in Latin America, in line with the Western campaign against free ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's English-language channel Press TV says that it has been dropped by the satellite that had broadcast its signal to North America. The Saturday report says that the Galaxy 19 satellite serving audiences in the United States and Canada has removed both the state-owned news channel as well as a movie channel, iFilm. It said ...

Irans ambassador to Madrid says a move to take Iranian satellite channels, including Press TV and Hispan TV, off the air shows the Wests dishonesty, adding that Tehran will file a lawsuit against Spain in this regard. Morteza Saffari said in a press conference in Madrid on Friday that European countries claim to defend freedom of speech and human ...

The French-based satellite provider Eutelsat has resumed the broadcasting of Irans Spanish-language Hispan TV on the Hotbird satellite after briefly taking the channel off the air. Eutelsat initially said on Monday that it had been ordered to do take Hispan TV off Hotbird. However, it later rejected its initial statement and blamed the move on technical ...

TEHRAN On Sunday, as they do each week, Shahnaz and her elderly mother turned on the smuggled satellite receiver, its dish carefully hidden on the balcony, and sat back to watch their favorite soap opera, The Tulip Age. For months, they had happily immersed themselves in the luxe world of the square-jawed Cinar and the long-legged Yesim, whose complicated ...

Five reportedly charged withillegal production and distribution of underground music for Los Angeles satellite channels A prominent Iranian songwriter was reportedly among five musicians arrested in a police raid in Tehran last week. Roozbeh Bemani, 34, appears to have been among those charged with the "illegal production and distribution of ...

Irans Arabic-language news channel, al-Alam, has been jammed on the Nilesat, recent reports say. Press TV has learned that al-Alams signal on Nilesat has been interrupted over the past few days. The main source of the jamming signals has not been identified. However, some sources say the jamming operations are being carried out from areas inside ...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the bans by certain Western satellite operators on Iranian channels,Press TVreports. Ernest Sagaga, the human rights and communications officer of IFJ, a Paris-based global federation of journalists' trade unions, denounced the politically-motivated bans. I do hope that this ban is going ...

It seems that the West is sloughing over its established definition of freedom of expression when the Iranian channels HispanTV and Press TV come under brutal censorship by the Israel-friendly satellite companies in Europe. Evidently spearheaded by the Zionists, Spain's satellite provider Hispasat has ordered Overon to take Press TV and Hispan TV ...

Iranian police have launched a new crackdown on satellite dishes, which many Iranians, especially in the capital, use to watch TV channels broadcasted in from abroad. The police do this on a regular basis, but, despite changing tactics, our Observers in Tehran tell us this is a losing battle. Though satellite dishes are banned, Tehrans rooftops ...

By Trend Majlis Representative from Shiraz Hossein Zoulanvari said on Saturday that the Western governments attempt to cut off Iranian TVs from satellite broadcasts was a prelude to Gaza invasion,IRNAreported. During 22-day war, the Iranian media broadcast all images of unconventional weapons used by Israel against Palestinians, he said citing ...