(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of Iranian Parliament (Majlis) Seyyed Hossein Naqavi Hosseini says that culture is used as spying tool by the western hegemonies and British BBC TV is playing the same role in this regard.
In an interview with ICANA on Wednesday, Hosseini said: "misusing the media and culture institutions including newspapers, TVs and news networks has been one of the methods of the colonialists over the last century.
Referring to 100 years of colonialist record of the British government, he said: "directing the spying agencies in order to gain information about other countries is one of the methods used by the British colonialists."
"The method is not only restricted to Iran and many other countries have suffered the same problems." Hosseini added.
He further noted: "this time media outlets like BBC Persian TV is used to fulfill the colonialist objectives of British colonial hegemony."
A number of media professionals have been arrested by iran's ministry of information over cooperation with foreign spying agencies.
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28 September 2011 - 20:30
News ID: 268515
Member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of Iranian Parliament (Majlis) Seyyed Hossein Naqavi Hosseini says that culture is used as spying tool by the western hegemonies and British BBC TV is playing the same role in this regard.
