President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday officially launched Iran's latest foreign-language news channel, a 24-hour satellite broadcaster aimed at Spanish speakers world-wide. "Viva España, viva America Latina," he said in Spanish at the end of a televised speech to dignitaries attending the launch ceremony in Tehran.
The state-funded channel, HispanTV, has already been test-broadcasting since mid-November from its offices in Tehran, using a staff of Iranian, Spanish and Latin American journalists.