Al Arabiya's Tehran bureau closed indefinitely/Iran asks BBC reporter to leave

[Turborama]

Source: Al Arabaya

The Dubai-based television channel Al Arabiya said on Sunday that its Tehran bureau has been ordered to remain closed indefinitely for "unfair reporting" of last week's disputed presidential election.

"The authorities accuse Al Arabiya of diffusing news that is not necessarily fair from their point of view," said channel's executive news manager, Nabil al-Khatib, adding that the channel had not done anything that was in violation of Iranian law and had appealed to the government about what it saw as a campaign against the station in the official Iranian media.

"They have ordered that we do not broadcast any news about Iran, saying Al Arabiya in Dubai does not comply with what Al Arabiya's office in Tehran was ordered to do," he said.

The move followed a decision by the Ministry of Information to shut Al Arabiya's Tehran bureau last Sunday for a week just as the protests over disputed presidential elections were getting underway.

Read more: http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/06/21/76600.html

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Iran asks BBC reporter to leave

Source: BBC

Iranian authorities have asked the BBC's correspondent in Tehran to leave the country within 24 hours.

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Iran has singled out Britain and the BBC in its widespread condemnation of what it calls meddling by foreign powers in its affairs.

In the days following the 12 June election, BBC Persian TV was disrupted by "deliberate interference" from inside Iran, the corporation said.

In response, the BBC increased the number of satellites that carry its BBC Persian television service for Farsi-speakers in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan.

Read more & video: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8111638.stm

[ixion]

1. All of this just makes them look guilty...

which they probably are...

[JI7]

2. what right do they have what Al Arabya reports ?

they are demanding they not report anything on Iran even if they are in another country ? wtf ?

[Odin2005]

3. More proof of Ahmadinnerjacket's and Cockhamanei's guilt.

[ohio2007]

4. .

http://bit.ly/ysscg

[ohio2007]

5. Is Al Arabaya trying to make nice with the regime? ( finger points the BBC as bad guy)

Iran accuses UK of vote sabotage, kicks out BBC

Iran's foreign minister accused Britain on Sunday of seeking to sabotage the disputed presidential election that returned Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power and ordered the BBC’s Tehran correspondent to leave within 24 hours, semi-official media reported Sunday.

"Great Britain has plotted against the presidential election for more than two years," Manouchehr Mottaki told foreign diplomats in Tehran in comments translated into English by state-run Press TV.

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British meddling

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also on Friday accused "the evil British government" of meddling in the June 12 election, which the opposition has protested was rigged.Britain dismissed the charges as "unacceptable" and summoned the Iranian ambassador in protest. Tehran had summoned the British ambassador on Tuesday to protest London's comments on post-election unrest.


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http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/06/21/76596.html

imo, the BBC reporters kicked out should ask the Al Arabiya reporters what they planned on running in their weekend updates.



How much successfully remains covered up by the theocracy