HispanTV has foreign journalists from Argentina, Chile, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Russia, Spain, and Venezuela. It also has journalists from Iran who speak Spanish.
The stated goal of HispanTV is to offer an opportunity for cultural exchange through television and web broadcasts between Latin-American citizens of Iranian descent, Hispanics of the United States, Muslim minorities of the Hispanophone world, and Spanish-speaking foreign residents in Iran.[3]
In July 2013, HispanTV and other Iranian channels were removed from several European and American satellites.[citation needed] HispanTV is no longer aired in Spain as Spain is a member of the EU and HispanTV now exclusively broadcasts in Hispanic America. HispanTV "tried to bypass sanctions by providing live feeds of its networks through YouTube".[4] HispanTV's YouTube channel has since been blocked.[5]
Antisemitism allegations
The Anti-Defamation League has stated that "HispanTV regularly broadcasts anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist conspiracy theories" and that Iran's "influence in Latin America has been a strong feature of the Iranian government’s foreign policy in the last decade, and HispanTV serves as a platform to spread Tehran’s conspiracy theories, Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism".[4] HispanTV claimed that the COVID-19 pandemic "is the result of a Zionist plot...This virus serves Zionism's goals to decrease the number of people in the world and prevent it from increasing."[6][7]
The documentary, based on a conspiracy theory, Plan Andinia: A New Jewish State ?, by Asela Villar, suggests Israel is slowly planning to invade Patagonia. It is aired on Real Stories network, belonging to Little Dot Studios and All3Media.
