Posted on 08/14/2006 3:45:33 PM PDT by HAL9000
August 14, 2006 -- Reports from Iran say authorities are continuing their crackdown on Western television channels, raiding rooftops in search of banned satellite dishes.Iran's media today quoted Tehran police chief Morteza Talai as reminding residents that the use of satellite dishes is prohibited by law.
Eyewitnesses say police have been raiding apartment blocks in Tehran's northern and western neighborhoods in the past few days, looking for prohibited dishes.
AFP quoted a Tehran resident as saying security forces seized scores of satellite television equipment on August 13 in Velenjak district.
The Iranian parliament in 1995 passed a law outlawing satellite dishes in a bid to rid the country of Western influences and prevent foreign-based opposition groups from broadcasting into the country.
But the ban was not strictly implemented up until last year, when President Mahmud Ahmadinejad was sworn in as Iran's new president.
After we freed Afghanistan the people started making satellite dishes.
Why don't these Muslims just make everyone blind and deaf at birth. Also cut their feet and hands and genitals off. Then they will find it harder to succumb to temptation. What an ideal religion!
This is not new. This has been happening everyday in Iran for years. The IRGC/Basij forces confiscate these dishes, then sell them back for a profit to black market dealers, and the dishes eventually find their way back on roofs. Wash, rinse, repeat.
they do.
Well, many of Iranians were already upset...now this...NOT SURPRISING...and that creepo evil prez thinks he can lecture us through that shameful interview loon wallace did...
Wallace couldn't get that slime ball to answer the questions he ask...
Ailing Castro's Cuba signals
Crackdown on pirate TV
By Anthony Boadle
August 9, 2006
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's communist government has signaled a crackdown on black-market satellite dishes used by citizens to get news and views from its arch enemy, the United States, nine days after ailing leader Fidel Castro temporarily relinquished power to his brother.
The Communist Party newspaper Granma warned that the dishes, which many Cubans use to watch Spanish-language TV programs from the exile bastion of Miami, could be used by the U.S. government to broadcast subversive information.
"They are fertile ground for those who want to carry out the Bush administration's plan to destroy the Cuban revolution," said the newspaper, the official voice of the government. Similar articles in Granma usually signal that action can be expected.
The article decried an "avalanche" of capitalist advertising in the commercial programs.
Since Castro provisionally relinquished power to his brother Raul on July 31 after undergoing stomach surgery, Cubans have been anxious for information.
U.S.-funded TV and Radio Marti, run out of Miami, have pumped up their output of anti-Castro programming, but few Cubans are believed to have access to the stations because of successful jamming by the Cuban government.
By contrast, there may be as many as 10,000 illegal TV satellite dishes in Cuba, each one linked to perhaps hundreds of televisions by cables that their owners snake over rooftops and between buildings, charging other users $10 a month.
Many who get black-market U.S. television watched with astonishment as exiles in Miami danced in the streets when they heard on July 31 that Fidel Castro had undergone surgery and handed over power to his brother.
Castro's Cuba is widely viewed in Miami as an authoritarian prison where dissent and economic freedom are brutally quashed. Castro's supporters view him as a champion of social justice and national pride for standing up to the United States for more than four decades.
I suppose it would have been too much to expect for Mike Wallace-the-Appeaser to ask Iran's crazy and evil President serious questions about gross restrictions on freedom, including freedom of the press and of the people to have a real ability to choose from among candidates for political office?
Iran is not a country run by the people, its a country run by the mullahs. If we had religious fanatics running our country we'd have the same conditions plus witch trials and inquisitions.
You can bet radios have been restricted for a long time. Radio receivers are just as vulnerable to direction finding equipment as transmitters. Sidenote: During the war (the world war II) Iran was so poor they stole copper telephone wire almost as fast as it could be strung up by the Americans, and the water supply was the gutter in most cities. Black market items from consumer goods to typewriters were extemely expensive.
Instead of one large "Iron Curtain" new little "Iron Curtains" are coming into existence every day.
Why don't these Muslims just make everyone blind and deaf at birth. Also cut their feet and hands and genitals off. Then they will find it harder to succumb to temptation. What an ideal religion!
Don't forget cutting off the tongue. No one should be allowed to speak either for they might spread evil ideas not approved by the state.
A 47 year revolution. Not real good at moving on are they?
He's a cable guy. Actually he's so old he's still over the air brodcast. So dissin the dishes ain't no thang.
You can't place rocket launchers on a roof with all that TV junk in the way! ;-)
Though with the August 22nd deadline coming up, this may be more ominous.
Doesn't want any one in Iran to know that it was Iran who launched the first salvo...
I am amazed that CNN is giving Castro so much TV mention while he is in the hospital making NO NEWS!
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