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Iran Launches Spanish Language Satellite TV Channel

January 31, 2012 · Mustapha Hamoui

The Washington Post:

Hispan TV — the first Spanish-language channel airing from the Middle East — will broadcast news, documentaries, movies and Iranian films 24 hours a day. […] “The new channel will limit the ground for supremacy of dominance seekers,” Ahmadinejad said during a Tehran ceremony marking the inauguration. “It will be a means for better ties between people and governments of Iran and Spanish-speaking nations.”

I checked out their website and watched some of the programs. Production is not bad and the presenters are actual Spanish speakers, not locals who spoke Spanish with an accent. But it all feels so pointless..