Ali-Reza Karimi, Director General for Publicity Affairs of the ministry made the remarks in a seminar attended by Iranian regime’s officials "in charge of publicity nationwide," in the southern city of Shiraz, the report added.
Ali-Reza Karimi, Director General for Publicity Affairs of the ministry made the remarks in a seminar attended by Iranian regime’s officials "in charge of publicity nationwide," in the southern city of Shiraz, the report added.
"Stressing the significance of ‘making appropriate and effective publicity, ‘ Karimi said that academic and scientific bodies should provide special courses to train generating effective and proper publicity against the negative propaganda."
Iranian regime’s State Security Forces (SSF) regularly ambush private houses rounding up satellite dishes from the rooftops and back yards. The SSF units enter residential blocks and either destroy the dishes or take them away to suppress the people’s overwhelming response to the satellite channels such as Simaye-Azadi.
Despite the fact that since 1994 satellite dishes has been officially outlawed in Iran, millions of Iranians rely on satellite TV channels for their news and information. According to Brig. Gen. Ezzatollah Zarghami, head of the state-run broadcaster, Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), more than 30 percent of the population in Iran has access to satellite channels.
The Farsi-Language satellite TV Simaye-Azadi has much success in broadcasting clips of recent student protests and suppression of women in Iran. The Iranian regime by installing jamming devices in various parts of the country including Tehran tries to stop people from having access to the TV Channel.