Qatar and Iran to launch satellite 22, March 2010
Posted by thegulfblog.com in Al-Jazeera, Egypt, Iran.Tags: Al Alam banned, Al Alam tv, Egypt, Egypt TV, Iran, Iran and Qatar satellite, Iranian satellite, Nilesat
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MEMRI reports that Iran and Qatar are to launch a satellite together primarily to compete with Egypt’s Nilesat. This stems from a recent decision imposed on Egyptian broadcast networks to stop broadcasting Iran’s Al Alam TV channel to the Arab world. If this venture succeeds (a sizable ‘if’ I’d have thought) Al Alam will once again flood the airwaves smearing Iranian soft power insidiously into the crevices of the Arab World, as Mubarak might put it.
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