Iran has shut down an office of television channel Farsi1, owned by News Corp. and Moby Group, and arrested at least four employees for "anti-revolutionary" activity, the Tehran prosecutor was quoted ...

Farsi1, the Persian language satellite entertainment channel beamed into Iran's households from Dubai has been getting death threats from Islamic hardliners because of raunchy soap operas, comedies ...

On November 17, a group calling itself the Iranian Cyber Army reportedly hacked the website of the popular satellite channel Farsi1. Iranian news websites have posted a screenshot of the hacked Farsi1 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. TEHRAN: A satellite TV station co-owned by Rupert Murdoch is pulling in Iranian viewers with sizzling soaps and sitcoms but has incensed ...

KABUL, Afghanistan In little more than a year, the Persian-language satellite television channel beamed into Iran by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation and a prominent Afghan family has rapidly become ...

Farsi1, a Persian language satellite station partly owned by Rupert Murdoch’s NewsCorp, has become the most popular entertainment network in Iran, with nearly half of the country’s population (some 35 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Iranian women have discovered an unlikely array of new idols – the overseas stars on Rupert Murdoch’s Farsi1 ...

FROM modest origins, peddling rusty antennae so that bored housewives can watch Persian-language pop videos from America, the satellite man has become an indispensable part of Iranian middle-class ...