By Guest | Published:
October 28, 2009
This is a guest post by Sheikh Spear
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Iran is a brutal theocratic dictatorship that executes minors, stones adulterous women to death, persecutes religious and ethnic minorities and murders and imprisons non-violent protestors for calling for free and fair elections.
Fareena Alam presenting on Press TV
It is also not exactly supportive of the UK’s struggle against Islamist extremism. The Iranian government is widely believed to have supplied Iraqi insurgents with many of the roadside bombs that killed British soldiers in Iraq, Iran’s leaders have also called for the extrajudicial murder of a British novelist and funded London-based radical Islamist outfits such as the comically misnamed Islamic Human Rights Commission.
One would think, therefore, that the British government would regard employees of the Iranian government as being less than ideal partners for the UK domestic ‘Preventing Violent Extremism’ programme.
Poor Hizb ut-Tahrir. Things have hardly been going well for them these days and now Iranian propaganda channel Press TV has, through its own incompetence, proven what we always suspected – the number of people who actually give a damn about Hizb ut-Tahrir is miniscule in the extreme.
Under the title “In London, Turkey’s Hizb ut-Tahrir protests secularism“, Press TV publishes an article which clearly demonstrates that they have no idea who Hizb ut-Tahrir are and, despite sending a reporter to their protest, can’t be bothered to find out; they think Hizb ut-Tahrir is a Turkish political party not a global Islamist movement.
Protesters from Turkey’s banned Islamic political group Hizb ut-Tahrir have staged a demonstration in front of the Turkish embassy in London.
Sucks to be Hizb ut-Tahrir – the only people writing about them are their own members, critics like us and the discredited media arm of a totalitarian regime which can’t even get basic details right.
By Houriya | Published:
July 14, 2009
I work at Press TV because it broadcasts the truth about what is happening in the world.
Says Roshan Muhammed Salih, Press TV’s head of news in London. A regular writer for the Iranian propaganda channel, he wrote in today’s Guardian’s Comment is Free defending what many of us would not even begin to comprehend defending: why he actually enjoys working for his Islamist – totalitarian – human rights abusing – homosexual executing – employer. Really.
He says:
The channel is willing to give a platform to legitimate actors whom the western media will not touch, such as Hamas and Hezbollah, while at the same time reporting what the authorities are saying.
So terrorist organisations that condone and encourage suicide bombings, the killing of innocent civilians (Jewish children are legitimate targets according to Hamas), propagate anti-Semitic filth, kill and maim political opponents, and are constructed and run by Islamist fascists are legitimate?
Seth Freedman has written a great piece for Comment is Free. In it he demolishes any lingering shreds of an argument that Press TV could be described as anything other than a propaganda mouthpiece for the Iranian state. In the line of fire is anybody who continues to defend that sorry shoddy station.
When Press TV was launched two years ago, Yvonne Ridley, one of the station’s presenters, was effusive in her praise of her paymasters: “I see it as an antidote to Fox TV that will give a different perspective to the coverage that you get from the mainstream media. It’s not shock TV, tabloid TV or propaganda promoting reactionaryism.”