It is freely available to anyone with a satellite dish in the region. It was initially broadcast for eight hours a day, seven days a week, from 17.00 to 01.00 hours – peak viewing time in Iran. It complements the BBC's existing Persian-language radio and online services. It was launched in January 2009 and is based in BBC Broadcasting House, London. In 2008, the BBC announced the launch of the BBC Persian Television. Internet īBC Persian has had a web presence since May 2001. Īs of 2000, BBC Persian Service output was about 28 hours per week, with a mixture of news, education and entertainment programmes. However, after the 1999 election of President Mohammad Khatami the BBC was able to re-open a Tehran office with a resident correspondent. For 19 years the BBC covered Iran from London with occasional short visits to Iran by correspondents. In 1980 the BBC correspondent in Iran was expelled and the BBC office in Tehran closed.
ĭuring the revolution Iranian media was heavily censored, resulting in long strikes by journalists, and the BBC Persian Service gained an even larger country-wide audience. In the year before the revolution the Persian Service interviewed the major contenders: one with Ayatollah Khomeini, three or four with Prime Minister Shapur Bakhtiar and two with Karim Sanjabi, leader of the National Front who were seeking a peaceful democratic transition from the Shah's rule. The Iranian Ambassador in London, Parviz Radji, tried to tone down these complaints recognising the BBC was acting independently, but had many meetings with the top management of the BBC in the late 1970s, including the Director-General Ian Trethowan. The Shah frequently sent telegrams to the BBC about Persian Service reporting. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his supporters became critical of the BBC in creating the environment for the popular upheaval that eventually led to the Iranian Revolution in February 1979. In the years before the revolution, the BBC Persian Service became highly trusted and liked by listeners, and gained mass appeal beyond intellectuals and the Iranian diaspora. Under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi įrom 1965 the newly formed BBC World Service took over the running of the BBC Persian Service. The BBC was at times even used directly in the operations, sending coded messages to the coup plotters by changing the wording of its broadcasts. The British government used the BBC's Persian service for advancing its propaganda against democratically elected Prime minister of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh and anti-Mosaddegh material were repeatedly aired on the radio channel to the extent that Iranian staff at the BBC Persian radio went on strike to protest the move. In September 2022, the World Service announced the proposed closure of its Persian and Arabic radio service as part of a cost-cutting plan, but an online service will remain. This caused many Iranians to believe the Persian Service was not independent, and an advisor of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh said the "BBC was the voice of British imperialism and we did not trust it". However the risk of the Iranian nationalisation of Anglo-Persian Oil Company created an exceptional circumstance causing the Foreign Office to issue memorandums of advice and lists of points to make to the BBC, and the amount of broadcasting more than doubled. The Persian Service continued after the war as part of the BBC General Overseas Service, with more editorial independence from the UK government. Following the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran in August 1941, the Foreign Office encouraged broadcasting about king's autocratic style and republican systems of Government.
The government reasons for prioritising this was concern that the Iranian king, Reza Shah Pahlavi, was sympathetic to Nazi Germany. The BBC first started a Persian radio service during World War II on 29 December 1940, encouraged by the Foreign Office, as part of its Empire Service. Its headquarters are in London, United Kingdom. BBC Persian ( Persian: بیبیسی فارسی) is the Persian language broadcast station and subsidiary of BBC World Service which conveys the latest political, social, economical and sport news relevant to Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, and the world.
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