NCRI – The Head of the state-run TV and Radio in Iran has warned that a “greater sedition” is in the making as he lambasted independent Iranian artists.
Ezzatollah Zarqami acknowledged that in virtue of global advances in technology and communications, the Iranian regime cannot carry out its suppressive methods as easily as it was possible in 1981.
He also described the recent release of Iranian director and film maker, Jafar Panahi, as untimely, and added, “The Cannes Film Festival reserved an empty seat for that director. Our complaint from the [Iranian regime] officials is that they should have released this person [Panahi] 10 days sooner or later so that his release would not be deemed as a reaction to the Cannes. This lack of consideration fails to acknowledge the conditions of soft warfare and propaganda.”
The Head of the regime’s TV and Radio also called for more foreign satellite jamming. He said the Iranian regime’s attempts in this regard have been responded to by other parties jamming its affiliated programs, and added, “We jam satellites, and they do the same to us. Then, our programming gets disrupted. For example, the al-Alam network, which airs on Arab Sat and Nile Sat were removed in violation of the contract. Therefore, we have to be careful to do things that are in our own capacity.”
