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US tries to take Press TV off Afghan waves
in Breaking News 8 hours ago



Managing director of the cable TV provider in Herat says the US is trying to take Press TV off the air in western Afghanistan.
The United States continues to build up its pressure on Iran™s English-language news network Press TV and in a new move has sought to pull the Tehran-based television channel off the airwaves in Afghanistan.

Press TV has learned that the US Consulate in Herat, situated more than 800 kilometers (miles) west of Kabul, has asked the cable television provider in the city to immediately remove Press TV from its platform.

A senior official from the diplomatic mission has even met the managing director of the cable TV provider in Herat, and offered him three times more than the amount of the money paid by Press TV.

He then asked the Afghan agency to pull the plug on the Iranian English-language news network, and replace it with Western media outlets CNN and BBC.

This is the first time that US officials are asking Afghan cable television providers to cease operations of Press TV since the international news network went on air in Afghanistan four years ago.
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