US Waits for Formal Cuban Response on Jamming of Satellite Broadcasts to I

[Nottingham]

US Waits for Formal Cuban Response on Jamming of Satellite Broadcasts to Iran
VOA News
22 Jul 2003, 00:27 UTC


The Bush administration says it is still waiting for Cuba to formally respond to complaints about the jamming of U.S. satellite television broadcasts to Iran.

State Department spokesman Richard Reeker said Monday in Washington that U.S. officials have asked Cuba to investigate the matter.

Mr. Reeker also says that while the jamming appeared to be emanating from Cuba, U.S. officials at this point do not have enough information to know who is responsible.

Las week, the U.S. - government affiliated Broadcasting Board of Governors said the communist-run island was jamming the satellite news programs to Iran.
The BBG, which oversees the Voice of America, said the jamming was first detected July 6, when VOA started a daily, 30-minute Persian language television news and analysis program to Iran. The new program began amid anti-regime protests there.


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[Gman]

1. LOL! Good for Cuba

at least someone is trying to do something about this out of control "administration".

[democratic]

3. ..

This is not something to be proud of. Cuba has also blocked satellite television from pro-Democracy Iranian-Americans in the United States beamed into Iran that brought tens of thousands into the streets for democracy.

I wouldn't be cheering facist pigs like Castro destroying the hopes of democracy in Iran.

[newyawker99]

5. Hi democratic44!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Mika]

6. Except that Cuba isn't jamming the signal

Cuba only jams US propaganda from Radio and TV Marti that is directed at their own country.

Cubans can get all tha anti Castro radio and TV they desire from S Florida radio and TV stations. None of that crap is jammed.

Rick Sanchez was a mainstay of hillarious entertainment in Cuba when he worked for TV WSVN CH7 in Miami before he went to MSNBC.

Cuba respects international law. Even more so than the US.

[Maple]

2. It'll probably be spelled

Pthththb!

[Say_What]

4. Official Cuban Statement

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Cuba refutes U.S. charges of interfering with its satellite signals to Iran

STARTING on July 15, various dispatches datelined in Miami and Washington have been circulating information to the effect that the Cuban government is allegedly interfering with U.S. satellite transmissions to Iran. Some of the cables quote from Mr. Kenneth Tomlinson, director of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, a government agency that supervises U.S. international radio and television transmissions, who falsely stated that Cuba is deliberately and maliciously interfering with news programs that the United States sends to Iran.

According to those press sources, in his string of anti-Cuba lies Mr. Tomlinson even noted that the alleged interferences are a serious threat to satellite communications, and calls on the U.S. government to make a formal protest to Cuba.

With every right, Cuba has interfered, is interfering and will continue to interfere solely with the illegal radio and television transmissions that the U.S. government is sending to our country. In that we are aided by the sovereign right to defend our radio-electronic space from the subversive radio and television aggression directed from that country since the early years of the Revolution.

Rejecting this new anti-Cuba maneuver, MINREX wishes to reiterate its conviction that it is precisely the U.S. government that is flagrantly violating the rules and regulations established by the International Telecommunications Union by maintaining and even extending its illegal radio and television transmissions to Cuba.

http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2003/julio/lun21/29rechaz-i.html