Kial Britujo subite gajnis la rangon de la plej granda satano en Irano?

Ankaŭ rolis grave en tiu nova stato la plivigligado de la farsia elsendaĵo de la BBC, ĉu ne? Jerome Taylor de la tagĵurnalo The Independent raportas ĉi tie:

Iran's clampdown on foreign reporters has actually turned ordinary Iranians into an enormous database of willing citizen journalists. And while websites like Twitter and YouTube are only really accessible to technology-literate urbanised Iranians, huge numbers of poorer Iranians have access to satellite.

The fact that uncensored and impartial Farsi language news is now clandestinely watched by an estimated six million Iranians inside Iran itself has clearly rattled the regime which has been trying (and largely failing) to block the BBC's satellite signal by firing white noise at their transponders in space. At evening prayers, imams have regularly denounced the corporation as a tool of Western imperialism and when Iranian state television paraded captured protesters earlier this week many of them "repented" by blaming the BBC and Voice of America for encouraging them to hit the streets.