{"id":13204,"date":"2012-10-15T17:06:14","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T00:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/10\/15\/eu-blacks-out-iranian-tv-in-europe\/"},"modified":"2012-10-15T17:06:14","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T00:06:14","slug":"eu-blacks-out-iranian-tv-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/10\/15\/eu-blacks-out-iranian-tv-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"EU blacks out Iranian TV in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"EU\"PFDC – BRUSSELS, The European Union’s most recent package of sanctions against Iran’s nuclear program includes a surprising point: all Iranian state television channels are not available on sattelite in Europe any longer.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

European satellite provider Eutelsat blacked out all Iranian state-run TV and radio channels on Monday, citing “reinforced EU Council sanctions” as reason. <\/p>\n

The blocked channels include IRIB Jaam-e Jam TV, especially important for the hundred thousands Iranians and residents of Iranian ancestry as a small window to their far away home as well es especially important for the numerous football fans among them.<\/p>\n

IRIB is vastly covering Iran’s most popular sports, showing many games of the Iranian national team, but also youth teams and domestic as well as continental club competetions – all free of charge and without commercials.<\/p>\n

This is now history for very questionable reasons. Interestingly, the vast majority of the usual viewers are highly critical of the Iranian regime and their nuclear program anyways. <\/p>\n

Why they are punished without any clear reasoning or obvious benfit for EU’s stance against Iran’s nuclear program remains a mystery.<\/p>\n

While all programs are still available outside Europe, Iran has already announced legal steps against Eutelsat’s alledged compliance with the sanctions.<\/p>\n

Iranians abroad still have the internet as exit strategy though. Several websites, including IRIB’s official homepage, offer live streaming of Iran’s TV programs.<\/p>\n

For further information please visit http:\/\/www.irib.ir\/<\/a> or http:\/\/english.irib.ir\/<\/a>. <\/p>\n

For information on where to watch upcoming Iranian football matches live online please check out our discussion forums<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PFDC – BRUSSELS, The European Union’s most recent package of sanctions against Iran’s nuclear program…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":13203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c32-pfdc-editorials"],"views":4445,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}