NCRI – The Iranian regime’s state security forces have raided homes and seized every satellite dish in Quds district of the southern city of Shiraz, according to reports from Iran.
A commander of the Revolutionary Guards Corps in the city has also told people with dishes and receivers that they have one month to collect new digital receivers that will only allow them to view the Iranian regime’s TV network channels.
Speaking for Friday Prayer Leaders and members of Basij in the City on Wednesday, IRGC Colonel Mansour Piroozian said the digital receivers were being given to the people to compensate for the cost of their satellite receivers.
He added: “Some areas in the city are very much affected by satellite channels. Friday Prayer Leaders and members of the Basij should act to counter this ominous phenomena.”
A regime official last week admitted Iran had failed in its bid to ban people from watching satellite TV channels.
Despite a 1994 law making satellite dishes illegal, up to 70 per cent of families have them and their use is increasing, state-run TV network boss Fardin Ali Khah said.
“Although their use is now forbidden, they can be seen everywhere. Statistics show that the use of satellite dishes has never declined, and currently there is 50 to 70 per cent use of satellite dishes in Iranian families.”
Jamming satellite signals and other methods to prevent their use had also failed, and the government now needed to increase its spending on the issue to ensure the law was enforced, Khah insisted.
