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23-523: Hezbollah Secretary General Nasrallah publicized an invitation for all Lebanese citizens to volunteer for Hezbollah military training on al-Manar and al-Nour, who have been the media arms of the Hezbollah network and have facilitated its activities supported by the IRIB and IRGC . Members of Hezbollah's Executive Council, notably Nasrallah, controlled the budgets of al-Manar and al-Nour . This article about

46-620: A media company is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about mass media in Lebanon is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting ( IRIB ; Persian : سازمان صداوسیمای جمهوری اسلامی ایران , romanized :  Saazmaan-e Sedaavasimaa-ye Jomhoori-ye Eslaami-ye Iran ) or Seda va Sima ( Persian : صدا و سیمای , lit.   'Voice and Vision') for short, formerly called National Iranian Radio and Television until

69-517: A means for their false testimonies to be delivered for use by the country's broadcasters. IRIB, along with other Iranian state-run media, tend to censor or silence voices or opinions of reformist politicians as well ridicule them even as the reformists are in power since IRIB's editorial bias is more closer to the Supreme Leader and the Principlist . In April 2024, Iranian state television under

92-864: The Iranian revolution of 1979, is an Iranian state-controlled media corporation that holds a monopoly of domestic radio and television services in Iran . It is also among the largest media organizations in Asia and the Pacific region and a regular member of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union . Its head is appointed directly by the Supreme Leader , Ayatollah Ali Khamenei . With 13,000 employees and branches in 20 countries worldwide, including France , Belgium , Guyana , Malaysia , Lebanon , United Kingdom ,

115-626: The United States , the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting offers both domestic and foreign radio and television services, broadcasting twelve domestic television channels, four international news television channels, six satellite television channels for international audiences, and thirty provincial television channels available countrywide, half of which are broadcast in minority-status languages in Iran , such as Azerbaijani and Kurdish , as well as

138-407: The revolution , when Arteshbod Azhari became prime minister of Iran, Touraj Farazmand was chosen for head of National Iranian Radio and Television after Reza Ghotbi . The organization expanded greatly after 1979 revolution, and in addition to internal and global broadcasting channels, it manages more than one hundred electronic and written media. A broadcasting budget of 4000 billion Tomans

161-734: The Aryamehr University of Technology (later named Sharif University after the Revolution). He was then retained by the Plan Organization ( Sazman-e Barnam-e ) and asked to prepare a project for the establishment of a national Iranian television. Having finished the job, his intention was to pursue his passion and attend MIT in United States. However, he was asked to stay on and head the newly established National Iranian Television (NITV) which later, in 1971, merged with Radio Iran to become

184-670: The King, the feud between the two turned him off politics altogether. By age 15, at Alborz High School he instead focused on his classes, sports and scouting. He later studied telecommunications and mathematics in France at the Ecole Centrale and the Telecom Paris . Years later, he married Shahrzad Afshar in Tehran, in 1968, and had two children. Upon return to his country, Ghotbi taught mathematics at

207-494: The National Iranian Radio and Television (NIRT). He trained young professionals in various required fields and rapidly created a network of television centers covering most provinces throughout Iran. He gathered a team of highly qualified professionals thanks to which NIRT eventually became the most important broadcasting network in the region. Within a year of running NITV he headed the annual Shiraz Arts Festival under

230-962: The authority to designate those in Iran who restrict or deny the free flow of information to or from the Iranian people . IRIB was placed in the list of sanctioned entities of the European Union in December 2022 due to its role in the repression of the Mahsa Amini protests . Following this order, Eutelsat ceased broadcasts of the IRIB international channels for the Europe region via Hot Bird satellite on 21 December 2022. 35°47′4.22″N 51°24′43.78″E  /  35.7845056°N 51.4121611°E  / 35.7845056; 51.4121611 Reza Ghotbi Reza Ghotbi ( Persian : رضا قطبی ; full name Abdorreza Ghotbi Gilani, Iranian; 5 April 1938 – 26 August 2024). He

253-575: The bottom of the sign, Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting phrase is written in Nastaliq font in the Persian language. According to Article 175 of the Iranian constitution , The director-general of IRIB is Peyman Jebelli, who was appointed by the Supreme Leader of Iran in 2021. The isolation of Iran’s movie industry has forced filmmakers to reorient themselves around national television broadcasters. These networks churn out ideological products in line with

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276-582: The first head of the company. The channel broadcast five hour programs including news, traditional and western music, religious and sports programming as well as programs dedicated to economic and political discussion. according to estimates from the Statistical Center of Iran , in 1976 about 76% of urban population and 45% of rural population had access to the radio. National Iranian Television officially opened on 21 March 1967 to create National Iranian Radio and Television . At that time, hardware equipment

299-647: The guise of supposed destruction in Israel due to an attack by Iranian missiles and drones , actually showed footage of a fire in Chile, filmed several months ago. Pursuant to the United States Presidential Executive Order 13628, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting is subjected to U.S. sanctions under Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act which gives the Treasury Department

322-585: The intelligence services as he wouldn’t accept censorship in any programming. His final resignation was accepted by Prime Minister Amouzegar in 1978, shortly before he was replaced by Sharif-Emami. Ghotbi left Iran several months after the onset of the Revolution. He resided in Paris for some years before settling in the United States but eventually moved back to Paris to be close to his children and grandchildren. Ghotbi died of cancer in Paris, on 26 August 2024, at

345-527: The local dialects of Persian . IRIB provides twelve radio stations for domestic audiences, and through the IRIB World Service , thirty radio stations are available for foreign and international audiences. It also publishes the Persian-language newspaper Jam-e Jam . On 24 April 1940, Radio Iran was officially opened by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi – the then crown prince of Iran – with Isa Sedigh as

368-1108: The patronage of HIM the Shahbanou Farah Pahlavi and in later years, the Tous Festival in Mashhad and Festival-e Farhang-e Mardom (Festival of popular culture) in Isfahan. At the NITV, Reza Ghotbi established Gorouh-e pazhouhesh-e Iran Zamin (Department for Research on Iran), Markaz-e hefz va eshaye-e musiqi-e Iran (Center for the Preservation and Propagation of Iranian Music), Madressey-e āli-e cinema va television (School of Cinema and Television), Kargah-e musiqi-e koodakan va nojavanan (Music Workshop for Children and Young Adults), Kargah-e nemayesh (Theater Workshop), Majalley-e Tamasha (Tamasha magazine) and Entesharat-e Soroush (Soroush Publishing House), amongst others. Twice during his career, he offered his resignation, butting heads with

391-402: The programs increased quickly. At the end of revolution two TV channels (first program and second program) was active and with facilities expansion, more than 95% of Urban population and about 75% of country population was able to receive TV waves. Before the revolution about 40% of TV programs was foreign and also imported and internal programs were usually modelled from foreign programs. During

414-427: The revolution, it represented the revolution's slogan of "neither Eastern, nor Western – Islamic Republic" and thus symbolized denial of both capitalist and communist influence or specifically the United States and Soviet Union . These two words at the middle get together like a channel and there is an eye sign at the intersection of them (which was later adapted into the logo of the flagship television channel ). At

437-622: The self-interrogating, subversive cinema that allows a society to have a public conversation with itself about gender, culture, marriage and power. A study published in June 2020 by the Justice for Iran and the International Federation for Human Rights claimed that Iranian television had broadcast the potentially coerced confessions of 355 detainees since 2010. Former prisoners stated they had been beaten and received threats of sexual violence as

460-529: The state’s Islamic gender norms, with women sometimes cast in traditional roles and deferential to men, who are portrayed as their guardians and protectors. Amid the intensified conflict with the United States, Iran’s security establishment has emerged as a major producer of blockbuster television and film centering on the prowess of the Revolutionary Guards and its intelligence services. Iran is awash in sophisticated domestic versions of “Homeland,” and lacks

483-628: Was a mathematician and a telecommunications engineer who headed the National Iranian Radio and Television during the Pahlavi dynasty . A fervent nationalist from early childhood, while attending Firouz Kouhi primary school, Ghotbi joined the Pan-Iranist Foundation (not the Party) at the age 11, a year prior to what the regulations allowed. A fervent admirer of Mosaddegh and wholly devoted to

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506-455: Was at the disposal of the Ministry of Post, Telegraph and Telephone and its media was producing by Advertising and publishing department. In later years, radio and television expansion request across the country to create an integrated entity and from 1971 all facilities was given to National Radio and Television. The Shah personally appointed Reza Ghotbi as head of organization and the duration of

529-457: Was expected in the 2018 budget bill, however, according to Ali Asgari (the organization manager), a channel budget like that of BBC Persian consists of over 6000 billion Tomans and IRIB needs a larger budget for managing 62 TV channels and 83 radio channels. The IRIB sign includes the Emblem of the Islamic Republic at the top and two characters "لا". When this sign was conceived at the beginning of

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