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Voice of America Persian News Network

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VOA Persian
Country
United States
HeadquartersWashington, D.C.
OwnerU. S. federal government
ParentVoice of America
EstablishedJuly 2003[1]
Launch date
18 October 1994 (TV)
22 November 1979 (Radio)
Former names
VOA Persia Service[1]
Budget
$23.78 million (FY2010)[1]
Official website
Official website
LanguagePersian

Voice of America Persian News Network (VOA-PNN) is a governmental international broadcaster of the United States of America in Persian language. Its headquarters are in Washington D.C. It started to broadcast its programs on 18 October 1994 with a one-hour television program. Its radio programs started on 22 November 1979 with 30 minutes broadcasting per day.

Managers

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Hooman Bakhtiar, Voice of America Persian Service producer, 2016.

The first manager of the VOA-PNN was Ahmadreza Baharloo. Later managers were Kambiz Mohammadi, Shila Ganji, Behrouz Abbassi, Behrouz Souresrafil, James Glassman, Hida Fouladvand and Ramin Asgard. The current manager of the VOA-PNN is Setareh Derakhshesh.[2]

Programs

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As of July 2007, VOA-PNN broadcast 1 hour of radio programming a day, 7 hours a day of original programming for television, and a website.[1]

Original series

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Interview with Abdolmalek Rigi

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In April 2007, VOA-PNN conducted a phone interview with Abdolmalek Rigi, the leader of Jundallah (which was later designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization in 2010 by the U.S.)[3] and introduced him as the leader of the "popular resistance movement".[4][5] Following the event, Iran accused the U.S. of supporting terrorists by giving them the opportunity to speak.[6] The New York Times Magazine quoted Mehdi Khalaji as "[VOA administrators] do not seem to be able to distinguish between journalism and propaganda. If you host the head of Jondollah and call him a freedom fighter or present a Voice of America run by monarchists, Iranians are going to stop listening".[7] The act resembled the "hallmark of ideological objectivity" in VOA, and was criticized as an "irresponsible American embrace of violent regime change", according to Suzanne Maloney.[8]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Boon, Kristen; Huq, Aziz Z.; Lovelace, Douglas (2012), Global Stability and U.S. National Security, Terrorism Documents of International and Local Control, vol. 123, Oxford University Press, pp. 375–376, ISBN 9780199915897, ISSN 1062-4007
  2. ^ تلویزیون فارسی صدای آمریکا
  3. ^ "US Designates Iran Opposition Faction a Terrorist Group", Voice of America, 2 November 2010, retrieved 24 March 2020
  4. ^ "Iran Jundullah leader claims US military support", BBC, 26 February 2010, retrieved 24 March 2020, April 2007 Mr Rigi appears on Voice of America radio
  5. ^ Black, Ian (26 February 2010), "Execution of 13 for terror attacks reveals Iran's next move: intimidation", The Guardian, retrieved 16 July 2009, ...there was fury when Rigi, Jundullah's leader, was interviewed on the (government-run) Voice of America in 2007 and described as the leader of a "popular resistance movement".
  6. ^ Haider, Kamran (5 April 2007), Iranian speaker says U.S. supports "terrorists", Swissinfo, archived from the original on 5 December 2007 {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)
  7. ^ Azimi, Negar (24 June 2007), "Hard Realities of Soft Power", The New York Times Magazine, retrieved 24 March 2020
  8. ^ Maloney, Suzanne (2015), "Public Diplomacy in a Vacuum", in Wiseman, Geoffrey (ed.), Isolate or Engage: Adversarial States, US Foreign Policy, and Public Diplomacy, Stanford University Press, p. 182, ISBN 9780804795555
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