NCRI – Egyptian official have shutdown a television channel, Al-Alam, belonging to the mullahs' regime. It was involved in making a film which the Egyptian official found it insulting to the former president Anwar Sadat.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit earlier this month condemned the film, days after Egypt summoned Tehran's envoy in Cairo to lodge a formal protest over the airing of the film.

Al-Alam's main station is based in Tehran and run by IRIB - the Iranian state radio and TV service. It broadcasts on terrestrial airwaves to Iraq, as well as via satellite.

The transmissions are believed to be broadcast from a TV relay station on high ground in Iran overlooking parts of Iraq.

Al-Alam's managing director in 2003, Hasan Beheshtipur has said that the purpose of the channel is to present the viewpoints of the Islamic world and "counter the monopolization of news channels by western countries".

He said "the network plans to fill the existing vacuum in news dissemination in today's world".

Al-Alam is highly active in Lebanon and Iraq promoting Islamic fundamentalism in the region.