Quoting Press TV online ----
Tehran-based PRESS TV, staffed by both Iranians and foreigners, is slated to start broadcasting from Tehran today (Monday July 2, 2007). PRESS TV was born out of the need "to break the global media stranglehold of Western outlets." The channel, which has a total of more than 400 staff, has 26 reporters employed at different locations worldwide, including in Washington, New York, London, Beirut and Damascus, Abuja, Istanbul, Basra, al-Quds and many other strategic cities in the world.
Its features will include documentaries on aspects of the Islamic world and culture as well as live talk shows.
In a ceremony to mark the launch, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the 24-hour channel had a duty "to reveal what goes on behind the scenes of the propaganda news networks of mankind's enemies."
Ahmadinejad said the channel should stand "beside the oppressed nations of the world but not make news up in their favor."
"The media are used by the domineering powers to occupy lands and people's hearts," he said, promising that the new channel would "stand by the oppressed."
The ceremony was also attended by president of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), Ezzatollah Zarghami and deputy president of the IRIB in World Service, Mohammad Sarafraz.
The channel's website has already received millions of hits.
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http://www.presstv.ir/