Jamming

An important message tonight from the BBC DG Mark Thompson in a speech tonight, claiming that Iran was behind attempts to disrupt Auntie in the UK as well as abroad at the start of this month.  (The Times has the full story).

 "There was a day recently when there was a simultaneous attempt to jam two different satellite feeds of BBC Persian into Iran, to disrupt the service’s London phone lines by the use of multiple automatic calls, and a sophisticated cyber-attack on the BBC.”

On Thursday 1st March, BBC staff lost contact with the outside world via email, texts and the internet. It was the day before the Iranian elections.  This was one of the pieces that BBC Persian was trying to beam into Iran.  Worth seeing on Youtube for some of the angry and passionate comments below.