Iranian doc to challenge BBC Persian TV

The screenplay was written by the Iranian researcher Majid Tafreshi who resides in the Britain. He has been conducting research for the film for a long time, said film producer Majid Shakibania on the Sima Film Website.

For the documentary, Tafreshi said that he reviewed BBC’s history using vocal and visual resources available in the UK National Archives, the British government’s official archive.

“We will also conduct interviews with some people who previously worked for BBC but now are critical of this media organization,” he added.

The documentary needs extensive research and many documents have to be reviewed for the film, so that the research project is considered the main pre-production phase of the movie, he said.

BBC Persian Television is the BBC’s Persian language news channel that was launched on 14 January 2009. The service can be accessed through satellite television, and is aimed at the 100 million Persian speakers in Iran, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.

Iran has blocked the satellite signal of BBC Persian TV following the unrest that erupted after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won the June 12 election, which is disputed by his reformist rival Mir-Hossein Mousavi.

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