[InterceptPoint]

and the signals of U.S.-based Iranian exile satellite channels, which played a key role in promoting June's protests, were jammed.

I believe that jamming a satellite requires that you jam the uplink. Jamming the downlinks doesn't seem practical to me since you could only do it over a wide area from a satellite in the same orbital location.

I don't know much about what satellite or satellites are being used by the Iranian exiles but jamming a commercial satellite is a serious offense. It would take a reasonable sized dish and a transmitter and should be a piece of cake for the U.S. to locate.

It is one thing to jam the receivers in your own country. It is quite another thing to jam a commercial satellite channel from any location.

So why is this happening and why is the U.S. just watching?

[Valin]

There was a report yesterday(?) that the jamming is coming from our old friend castro.

[nuconvert]

There's an article all about this on last night's thread - done by NBC (yep) investigater. Also there's a separate thread about it. They're leaning toward South America. Scary Hezbollah group down there.