(London, England)
A "sophisticated cyber-attack" on the BBC has been linked to Iran's efforts to disrupt the BBC Persian Service.It appears the Iranian government is testing methods to electronically seal its population from the outside world.
In a speech Director General Mark Thompson plans to say that the internet attack coincided with efforts to jam two of the service's satellite feeds into Iran.
He will say: "We regard the coincidence of these different attacks as self-evidently suspicious."
Last month Mr Thompson accused Iran of intimidating Persian service workers.
Reporters Without Borders has also complained about Iran's "cyber-army".
The latest revelation follows a blog post by Mr Thompson in February in which he complained of the "repeated jamming of international TV stations such as BBC Persian TV, preventing the Iranian people from accessing a vital source of free information".
In his speech to the Royal Television Society he will note that on the day of the cyber-attack there had also been an attempt to disrupt the Persian Service's London phone-lines by the use of multiple automatic calls.
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