The state-run news agency Mehr, affiliated to the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security, reported on October 8 that the state seurity forces in the Hamedan Province of Iran have confiscated some 32,000 satellite dishes in the first half of the current year in Persian calendar (March 21- September 22).
Describing the suppressive measure, the commander of police in Hamadan Province said: “The satellite causes the youth to prematurely become adults.”
He described the police force as “the frontline in the soft war” and said: “the police force first issues a warning, then it obtains a written commitment, and then in case of refusal, it firmly acts.”
Additionally, on September 28, the IRGC announced in the city of Shiraz that 800 antennas and receivers of satellite channels were “symbolically” run over by BMP armored personnel carriers and roller trucks as a “measure for confronting the cultural aggression by enemies of the revolution and the system” in presence of “the officials of the province and the city of Shiraz.”
Concurrent with the measure in Shiraz, Hassan Rouhani at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York said: “In Iran, everyone has easy access to satellite networks, even on the rooftops of houses in every village you see satellite dishes.”
Meanwhile, Hassan Rouhani’s “Telecommunications Minister Mahmoud Vaezi rejected on Monday any official plans to legalize Facebook and Twitter,” Agence France Presse reported.
Despite all the suppressive measures, regime’s officials of all ranks continually express their fear by referring to “about 60% of Tehran’s residents use satellites”, “99% increase in discovery of satellite equipment”, and “doubling of people’s use of satellites.”
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
October 9, 2013