Egyptian security forces stopped broadcasting of Arabic TV Channel Al-Alam operated by the Iranian regime in Cairo on July 20. The security forces belong to a police department for control over art and media work, insisted to shut down the office for lacking a legal license.<\/p>\n
They raided office Al-Alam on Saturday evening and detained its director Ahmed al-Seyoufi for questioning, a staff of Al Alam told Xinhua.<\/p>\n
Mohamed Amin said,\u201d About 20 policemen, not in uniform, raided our office in Cairo, searched everything and took all the tapes and technical equipment, accusing the office of running without license.\u201d<\/p>\n
Amin told Xinhua that they told the police the license request has already been submitted and the procedures are underway, but they refused to leave the office.<\/p>\n
Amin said that the office director was interrogated at a nearby police station. Al Alam office in Cairo had been raided by the police in mid- May 2012.<\/p>\n
The Iranian regime has criticized the Morsi’s ouster earlier this month as “unacceptable and disturbing,” but later on, the regime\u2019s Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi urged Egyptian political groups for national unity and voiced respect for the “choice made by the Egyptian people.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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