15, 2014. This channel was a channel for test HD broadcasting. At 25 January 2016, it was removed in Tehran and replaced by provincial channel IRIB Tehran, as IRIB TV5 has been national. Directors-general The director-general of IRIB is Peyman Jebelli, who was appointed by the Supreme Leader of Iran in 2021. Controversies Allegations of false confessions A study published in June 2020 by the Justice for Iran and the International Federation for Human Rights said Iranian television had broadcast the potentially coerced confessions of 355 detainees since 2010. Former prisoners stated they had been beaten and received threats of sexual violence as a means for their false testimonies to be delivered for use by the country's broadcasters. Censorship of reformists IRIB, along with other Iranian state-run media tend to censor or silence voices or opinions of reformist politicians as well ridicule them even as the reformists are in power since most of his editorial bias is more closed to the Ayatollah and the Principlist. International sanctions United States Pursuant to the United States Presidential Executive Order 13628, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting is subjected to U.S. sanctions under Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act which gives the Treasury Department the authority to designate those in Iran who restrict or deny the free flow of information to or from the Iranian people. European Union IRIB was placed in the list of sanctioned entities of the European Union in December 2022 due to its role in the repression of the Mahsa Amini protests. Following this order, Eutelsat ceased broadcasts of the IRIB international channels for the Europe region via Hot Bird satellite in 21 December 2022. See also IRIB International Conference Center Media of Iran Censorship in Iran References External links Official website for IRIB's domestic radio services Official website for IRIB's domestic television services Multilingual website of IRIB World Service 1926 establishments in Iran Iranian propaganda organisations Radio stations established in 1926 Television channels and stations established in 1958 News agencies based in Iran Television stations in Iran Persian-language television stations Radio stations in Iran Sanctions against Iran Multilingual broadcasters Persian-language radio stations Iranian entities subject to the U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctions Organisations under the direct control of the Supreme Leader of Iran