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Israel imposes sanctions on BBC for publicizing nuclear arsenal
London, June 28, IRNA -- The Zionist regime was reported Saturday to be waging its own war with the BBC for publicizing an insight into the extent of Israel's undeclared nuclear, biological and chemical weapons in violation of international conventions.
According to the Times newspaper, Israel has broken all contact with Britain's public service in protest at its repeated "demonization" of the country and the planned showing of a critical documentary on BBC World on Saturday.
The sanctions imposed on the BBC were said to include refusing to put up official Israeli spokesmen for interviews and visa restrictions on the corporation's journalists.
The dispute comes as the BBC has become embroiled in a public row with Prime Minister Tony Blair's office over accusations that the British government exaggerated Saddam Hussein's weapons threat to justify the war against Iraq.
The Zionist lobby in Britain has a ruthless reputation of intimidating the media, and the final element in Israel's complaints against the BBC was reportedly when it originally screened the documentary of "Israel's Secret Weapons" in the UK back in March.
"The weapons programme, which contains the ridiculous false assertion that we used nerve gas against the Palestinians was the last straw," the director of the Israeli government's press office, David Seaman, told the Times.
"We decided that we had to draw the red line rather than just complain about a consistent attitude in which successive BBC programmes attempt to place us in the same context as totalitarian, axis-of-evil countries, such as Iraq and Iran," he said.
In response to the sanctions, BBC head of news Richard Sambrook was quoted as saying that while it was regretted that the Israelis felt they needed to take this action, We stand behind the veracity of the film."
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