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Iran Focus
 Tehran, Iran, Dec. 01 – Iran’s
para-military police, the State Security Forces
(SSF), confiscated several hundred satellite dishes in the north-western
city of Tabriz,
state dailies reported on Thursday.
According to the reports which quoted the police chief in the city, 580
satellite dish kits were seized during a search of five vehicles.
The Islamic Republic banned satellite dishes in 1995 under the pretext of
being “too Western”. The crackdown on satellite dishes was prompted by
broadcasts from Iranian opposition groups whose television programs are
reported to have a large audience in Iran.
Colonel Ayoub Haghighi
said that more than 5,000 bottles of alcoholic beverages had also been
discovered in the search.
Alcohol is banned in Islamic Iran. Anyone caught drinking liqueur in public
receives a fine or is sentenced to flogging in public and imprisonment.
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