{"id":11196,"date":"2018-08-11T22:26:19","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T22:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11196"},"modified":"2018-08-11T22:26:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T22:26:19","slug":"iran-tv-accused-of-muting-anti-regime-stadium-chants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11196","title":{"rendered":"Iran TV accused of muting anti-regime stadium chants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1354481\/middle-east\" readability=\"77\">\n<p>\nLONDON: Iranian TV turned down the volume on anti-government slogans chanted during a football match amid widespread public protests over the economy and Tehran\u2019s foreign interventions.<\/p>\n<p>\nVideos on social media showed thousands of fans in Tehran\u2019s Azadi stadium chanting \u201cdeath to the dictator.\u201d But state broadcaster IRIB muted the sound and avoided images of the crowd in its broadcast of the match.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nOne Twitter user said: \u201cYesterday, when the football was being shown, the sound in the stadium was turned down to such a level that one would think they were playing in an alleyway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThey turned down the volume so no one could hear the slogans,\u201d wrote another.<\/p>\n<p>\nIRIB\u2019s football commentators blamed \u201cnetwork disruption\u201d for the low volume, without giving details.<\/p>\n<p>\nAlireza Nader, an independent Iran scholar based in Washington, said Tehran was trying to avoid acknowledging the extent of public protests in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe regime doesn\u2019t want to know that there is a mass opposition movement in Iran. These images prove it,\u201d he told Arab News.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>US sanctions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\nProtests have rocked major cities across Iran \u2014 including Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz and Mashhad \u2014 amid mounting anger over the country\u2019s economy and political system.<\/p>\n<p>\nThey coincide with a new wave of US sanctions on Iran, the first phase of which was introduced on Tuesday, and involves blocks on financial transactions and imports of raw materials among other measures.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt emerged on Saturday that Iraq\u2019s Prime Minister Haider Abadi is to visit Iran next week to discuss economic affairs in the wake of the new sanctions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nAbadi, who will also visit Turkey, said earlier that Iraq would comply with the sanctions but said they were a \u201cstrategic error.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Iranian TV turned down the volume on anti-government slogans chanted during a football match amid widespread public protests over the economy and Tehran\u2019s foreign interventions. Videos on social media showed thousands of fans in Tehran\u2019s Azadi stadium chanting \u201cdeath to the dictator.\u201d But state broadcaster IRIB muted the sound and avoided images of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}