Sahar TV

Sahar TV (Persian: شبکه سحر, Shabake-e Sahar, SAHARTV), is the name of an Iranian TV channels that is part of Sahar Universal Network (SUN) which is the branch of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting responsible for broadcasting programs internationally via its Azeri, Balkan, Kurdish and Urdu language television channels.

Sahar TV

Broadcast area	Worldwide
Headquarters	Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting Tehran Iran
Programming
Language(s)	Urdu, Azeri, Kurdish, Bosnian
Ownership
Sister channels	Sahar Azeri Sahar Balkan Sahar Kurdish Sahar Urdu
Links
Website	Sahar TV website

It broadcasts to Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus, some parts of Northern Africa, Oceania, and all the countries in the subcontinent of India and Eastern Asia.

History

IRIB's northeast gate along Vali Asr Ave.

On 16 December 1997, Sahar Universal Network began broadcasting English programs for one hour a day. It gradually increased its airtime up to 4 hours a day.^{[citation needed]}

Although the main function of English TV is to propagate the Islamic educations, the structure of the topics and genres of programs in English TV are varied. Programming is not restricted to politics and news, but scientific and social documentaries, clips, and game shows also.^{[citation needed]}

Controversy

In February 2005, French-based Eutelsat banned all broadcasts of Sahar TV by the orders of the administrative court, due to the channel's alleged incitement of antisemitism by broadcasting the Syrian TV series Zahra's Blue Eyes, which was produced by the Lebanese TV station, Al-Manar, owned by Hezbollah organization.^[1][2][3] Iraqi information director Nazar Heydar cited the French ban has violated human rights conventions.^[4]