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Case No. IA-8285
AUG 1 2006
Shahram Hashernizadeh
President
Melli TV & Radio, Inc.
7355 Canoga Avenue
Canoga Park, CA 91304
Dear Mr. Hashemizadeh:
This responds to your application of March 1, 2006, to the Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC'') on behalf of Melli TV & Radio, Inc. ("Melli"), a company incorporated in California, for authorization under the Iranian Transactions Regulations, 31 C.F.R. Part 560 ("ITR"), to broadcast your satellite signal to audiences in Iran. We understand from your application that Melli would be broadcasting music videos, live talk shows, live music shows, films, sports programs, and commercial advertising to audiences in Iran. You state that these programs would originate from Dubai, Iran, Germany, the United States and any other country from which the advertising originates.
Section 560.201 of the...
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1) BACKGROUND
Case No. IA-8274 and Case No. IA-8285 were issued on the same day and address substantially similar factual situations, but Case No. IA-8285 provides a bit more detail. Unlike the applicant in Case No. IA-8274, the applicant in Case No. IA-8285 asks about broadcasting its own satellite signal to audiences in Iran, and apparently suggests that it intends on importing certain materials from Iran to “re-export” to Iran through the satellite-based broadcasts. Both of the applicants were relatively young companies at the time of their requests to OFAC, and both are now defunct. See “The Satellite Subversives” (New York Times Magazine; Feb. 24, 2002) for further relevant background (https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/magazine/the-satellite-subversives.html).
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