commercials on the foreign-based television stations that broadcast into Iran in Farsi. The ministry pointed out that a law is already on the books forbidding such advertising. “None of the foreign channels [in Farsi] is legal in Iran,” it said. “All of them are financed by organizations that are against the sacred system of the Islamic Republic. They are considered part of the opposition and advertising on them is illegal.” The amazing thing is that Iran-based businesses have advertised on these stations for years and the regime seems incapable of stopping it.
