{"id":32673,"date":"2012-02-03T16:22:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T16:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=32673"},"modified":"2012-02-03T16:22:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T16:22:24","slug":"bbc-persian-iran-intimidation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=32673","title":{"rendered":"Iran: BBC Persian staff face intimidation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC&#8217;s Persian TV service has faced further <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Iran: New crackdown on journalists in run-up to elections\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.indexoncensorship.org\/2012\/01\/20\/iran-new-crackdown-on-journalists-in-run-up-to-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\">intimidation<\/a>\u00a0in Iran. It has been <a title=\"Guardian - BBC Persian staff face Iranian intimidation \" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/feb\/03\/bbc-persian-staff-iranian-intimidation\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> that relatives of BBC staff in London have been detained and threatened by Iranian intelligence agents; top presenters have been targeted by rumours; and one employee has subjected to an online interrogation in London after a family member in Iran was jailed.<\/p>\n<p>Since its launch in 2009\u00a0channel has suffered jamming and deliberate attempts to interfere with its signal. Tensions between Britain and Iran have worsened in recent weeks,\u00a0with British regulator Ofcom <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Ofcom revokes Press TV's UK licence\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2012\/01\/iran-press-tv-ofcom-licence-revoked\/\" target=\"_blank\">revoking<\/a>\u00a0Iranian state broadcaster Press TV&#8217;s UK licence last month \u00a0for breaching the Communications Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC&#8217;s Persian TV service has faced further intimidation\u00a0in Iran. It has been reported that relatives of BBC staff in London have been detained and threatened by Iranian intelligence agents; top presenters have been targeted by rumours; and one employee has subjected to an online interrogation in London after a family member in Iran was jailed. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,4060,585],"tags":[3016,7359,490,727,3426],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32673"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32688,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32673\/revisions\/32688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}