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Tehran (IP)- Iran’s Leader appointed Peyman Jebelli as the head of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB);
Peyman Jebelli (Jebelli) was appointed the director of IRIB by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in September 2021. He has directed the replacement of senior managers with those who have close ties to the IRGC, and he has worked directly with the IRGC to create false narratives for publication. In his current and past roles at IRIB, Jebelli has been responsible for the broadcasts of many forced confessions of political prisoners, such as those described above.
As the Government of Iran’s state-run media conglomerate, IRIB has a monopoly on television and radio services in Iran and plays a central role in restricting the exercise of the right to freedom of expression and impeding the free flow of information in Iran through censorship activities. IRIB produces, sponsors, and spreads government propaganda both in Iran and internationally.
Furthermore, IRIB broadcasts regularly make false and baseless accusations against Iranian citizens, dual nationals, and foreigners, and use falsified news to misinform and falsely incriminate perceived enemies of the regime. IRIB also cooperates extensively with security and intelligence agencies, including Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), to obtain and publicly disseminate forced confessions from Iranians, dual nationals, and foreign detainees. Testimonies and other evidence point to the use of torture, both physical and psychological; threats against family members; and degrading treatment to extract forced confessions. Since 2009, IRIB programs have broadcast hundreds of forced confessions as well as defamatory content against hundreds more. IRIB uses forced confessions in particular to frame dual nationals and foreigners as spies, demonize human rights activists, and legitimize repression against religious minority groups like the Baha’i community.
Involved In:
Spreading propaganda
Positions and Violations:
– Editor of Foreign desk of IRIB Radio Evening News (1991 – 1993)
– Deputy Editor in Chief of IRIB Newsroom (1993 – 1998)
– Director General of Internal News, Central News Unit (1999 – 2001)
– Newsroom Director General of Al-Alam Network (2002 – 2005)
– Director of Al-Alam Network office in Beirut (2005 – 2008)
– Media Deputy of the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (2008 – 2010)
– Ambassador of the Islamic Republic in Tunisia (2011 – 2014)
– Deputy of the Political Affairs of the IRIB (2014 – 2016)
– Human Rights Violation: Broadcasting the forced confessions of the detainees accused of insulting Ruhollah Khomeini (1 Oct 2014)
– Human Rights Violation: Broadcasting the forced confessions of the detainees accused of acid attack (26 Oct 2014)
– Human Rights Violation: Broadcasting the forced confessions of Semko Khalghati (6 June 2015)
– Deputy of the Overseas Affairs of the IRIB (2016 – 29 Sep 2021)
– Human Rights Violation: Broadcasting the forced confessions of political prisoners (2016 – present) read more
– Editor in Chief of Channel 2 Newsroom (1999)
– Head of IRIB (29 Sep 2021 – present)
Also Known As:
JEBELLI, Payman
JEBLI, Peyman
Country:
Iran
Address:
Tehran, Iran
DOB:
25 Jan 1967
POB:
Tehran, Iran
Nationality:
Iran
Passport:
D10010071 (Iran) expires 25 Jun 2027
Reason for the color:
» Added to the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list maintained by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on November 16, 2022 pursuant to Executive Order 13846 for having acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, IRIB, a person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to E.O. 13628, which was revoked and superseded by E.O. 13846;
» COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2022/2428 of 12 December 2022 implementing Regulation (EU) No 359/2011 concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons, entities and bodies in view of the situation in Iran;