Provision of the BBC and the Iranian responses. This book explores one strand of connection within British–Iranian relations, the 70-year story of the Persian-language To wait to see what impact, if any, it has on the Persian Service.įramed by the changing nature of public diplomacy, With responsibility shifting from the FCO to the BBC itself from 2014, is a most significant structural change and we have The proposed changes to World Service funding, Iran in particular – remains to British political and economic interests. Television reveals how central the Middle East region 3 – and The recent 2007 Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) allocation of funds to the development of Arabic television and Persian Iranians have listened to the BBC with scepticism, but also regarded the Persian Service as one of their most trusted sources This was developed in the epoch of the Empire Service, a time of overt utilization of external radio services as tools of propaganda,Īnd has played a major role in relations between the UK and the Persian-speaking world at crucial political conjunctures. Of ‘public service’, a foundational value of the BBC, was thus discursively linked to its provision for the worldĪnd for Iran. Particularly rich vein of World Service history, the establishment and development of the Persian-language service. The BBC World Service practice of distance from government has emerged over timeĪnd not without a continuous struggle to claim and preserve control over the content of its broadcasts. Sky television platform, and the BBC Persian website remained blocked. Press TV, Iran’sĮnglish-language television channel, had been ordered off the British Scenario, relations between Britain and Iran were at rock-bottom.įormal diplomatic ties were severed in autumn 2011. Within this tense and complex international Has made sign-masters of us all – the wars of words and images were already rolling. Relations have turned into public diplomacy and international communication International travels and staged political theatre – were equally as much about corralling hearts and minds. Their own international and national broadcasting channels, their And the responses of the Islamic Republic – across With negative anticipation about the worsening relations with Iran. International media channels, domestic broadcasters, websites and blogs all thrummed Let loose on Western publics in particular about Iran – was getting worse. Relations, the mediated confusion – that is to say the media’s confusion about Iran and the mediated confusion Were arrested, making Iran one of the world’s largest jailers of journalists and giving it a ranking of 174 of 179 countries Sanctions as the only antidote to Iran’s nuclear programme there was little direct diplomacy and inside Iran, more and more journalists and bloggers The EU had followed the US in voting for increased Western democracies, Britain especially, were at their worst in years. The rhetoric often outweighs the real relations and the drums of war are beaten across a plenitude of media platforms.Īt the start of 2013, political relations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Have always included some elements of persuasion for home populations and propaganda for foreign nationals. New forms of diplomacy that may induce conflict. Re-engage with questions about the state, about propaganda and about A seriously engaged and globally focused Media Studies needs to Hegemony of Western media, particularly in the Middle East. There are profound challenges to the long-taken-for-granted Of the twenty-first century is undergoing a major realignment.
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