US Pulls Plug on Iran Cable News (Press TV)
Source: Common Dreams
As part of the United States expansive new sanctions against Iran, North American cable networks have pulled the plug on the country's state-run, English-language news network Press TV.
Calling the move a "flagrant violation of freedom of speech," Press TV announced Saturday that they had been dropped from the Galaxy 19 satellite platform which had previously broadcast the channel in the United States and Canada.
New sanctions announced by the US Treasury Department this week blacklisted Iran's state-run television network, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), as well as its director, Ezatollah Zarghami.
“So long as Iran continues to fail to address the concerns of the international community about its nuclear program, the U.S. will impose tighter sanctions [...] against the Iranian regime,” David S. Cohen, Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, said in a statement. “We will also target those in Iran who are responsible for human right abuses, especially those who deny the Iranian people their basic freedoms of expression, assembly and speech.”
Read more: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/02/09-2
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Do you listen to RT/Russia or is it RT/America/Question that you have a problem with?
What exactly is your problem with either or one or the other? 
Do you feel that Americans should be denied access to them...if so WHY?
Just gave you my first heart. 
Just gave you my first heart too!
"broadly" these days.
...shouldn't we do something about it?
Should this be the norm that we are told we are the Land of Free Speech while other countries propagandize their people? We are "supposed" to be bringing freedom and democracy and rights of Free Speech and Though to millions who live under what are known as Regimes who try to suppress their people.
We did it before...should we continue to do it now that we know what has been done that we weren't aware of until after the fact?
also business channel CNBC EUROPE...CNBC AMERICA....it goes on and on.
In a touted by our Government "Global Economy" when we are supposedly Democratizing other Nations and doing Drone Strikes it would seem the American People should be exposed to the views of other Countries and especially those we choose to pick fights with.
I'm from Vietnam Era....I will never forget what was done there. This is our Tax Money going for our battles and now we are denied access to a voice that we hope to Democratize? Tell me how this makes sense?
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of real news and some spun stuff. Their current headline news concerns your storm.
Still available on line anyway.
to have information that they can decide on themselves as to the validity of it.
"Someone or Some Folks" are happy with Limbaugh and his clones and Fox News and others who have voices like CNN (the war channel) but when Americans want to learn about what goes on in other countries in our "Global Economy" that we've been told to support because its so Good for us....we are told that we need to be denied news from sources that our Government deems..."Propaganda."
We obviously are too stupid or uneducated to have such stuff broadcast in our homes or on our airwaves...because it's not on the "Approved List" declared by those who "know better than we do."
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Sheesh....
It's akin to Voice of America. Of course, whenever we push VOA on other countries it's considered USAID conspiracy stuff, and if those countries refuse to show it, then they're protecting themselves from the US imperialist threat.
Tax Dollars) to help contribute to "... increasing the reach and influence of a government, not that of an independent news source" (Quote from You)
And...up above I have what our "Radio Free Europe/Voice of America" has done and is doing to Propagandize for Our Government Globally.
See....I shouldn't steer clear. I love Free Speech and to read and Listen and Watch what I want to...no matter where it comes from because I am an independent thinker born and bred in AMERICA where FREEDOM OF SPEECH is our FOUNDING!
Just so you know.......that you can't stop folks seeking information by wagging your "personal finger" saying "...this should be enough for any progressive to steer clear."
I think the Nazi's & Fascists tried that before....and it worked out badly for a huge population of the world. Hey...what about that FREE SPEECH for IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, LIBYA, EGYPT, SAUDI ARABIA, MALI, the AFRICOM CONTRIES, CHINA, and all the other countries we call down for Censorship of their Citizens?
That you claim to support the latter and "free speech" in the same breath beggars belief.
It's like saying you support labor and then shopping at non-unionized businesses, because "I want the freedom to shop where I want." No one's saying you can't shop at WalMart, but when you do I'm going to assume you aren't committed to labor in any meaningful way.
When you aggrandize the state-run media of a homophobic state, I've frankly got a lot of assumptions.
..."Nazi's." Spare me.
Shop at Walmart?
You have got to be kidding! BTW up until recently the USA was a "homophobic state" and before that a Government that denied Blacks and Women the Right to Vote. We invaded Korea and Vietnam and we now fly drones over territories of Sovereign States or Dictator States but it's OTHER PEOPLES LANDS.
Who the hell are you to tell me what to watch and what I can read and where I can shop or I will not be considered a Democrat or a Progressive or a Union Supporter?
Who are you to judge anyone in such an antagonistic way?
from Radio Personalities and even the hate/CT stuff from conservative ravers on CABLE. Remember Hillary accused of killing Vince Foster and some congressperson who staged shooting a melon to show how she could have done it? What about the Clinton Tapes that Limbaugh bloviated about supported. I hear he's on our Armed Services Radio broadcasts and approved still even though there have been efforts to get him cancelled for doing propaganda to our service people.
If it's allowed in MSM here in the US..and we can broadcast news in other countries that is US oriented (remember we did that after we invaded Iraq) then isn't it censorship to deny access to foreign news? After all there's BBC, German, French, Canadian also available to many Cable subscribers along with Asian News for balance.
That's my point...not condoning some of the reports on Press TV that are like your link or even on other countries broadcasts that allow some on to spout (what many might consider CT stuff)....but, if we don't believe in censorship as Americans, then we need to let folks make up their own minds and not shield them from what is going on even if it's vile and ugly stuff that's being promoted it should be confronted with discussion pointing it out rather than hidden in corners of the internet where it festers and grows.
