After 60 years and two weeks, at this hour the Persian service of Radio Israel is broadcasting its final program.

Under the new restructuring scheme, all of Israel’s government funded broadcastings, including its Persian service, will signoff today.

I like to take this opportunity to extend my deepest appreciation to all those dedicated Iran/Israel loving journalists and presenters, who by their journalistic professionalism have set the bar so high it is unlikely it will ever be surpassed.

Special thank you is in order to Lady Farnoosh Ram, Mr. Menasheh Amir and all their colleagues at the Persian service of Radio Israel for many, many years of service to Iranians.

Lets hope under the new system, these fine Iran/Israel loving professionals are utilized in continuation of service to Iranians inside Iran who are hungry for accurate news.

Above is a blog posted nearly a year ago.

In an attempt to mitigate the incredibly shortsighted and Outright stupid move of shutting down the Persian Service of Radio Israel, where millions of loyal listeners in Iran got their uncensored news, Israel is making new bid to engage Iranian People.

At a time when the perpetual expansionism and warmongering of the unreformable Islamist fascism ruling over Iran is making a catastrophic military confrontation between Israel and Iran a possibility, it is vital for the people of the two nations to have access to each other.

Lets not forget, Israel is Iran’s historic, cultural and strategic ally, it is the Islamist fascism which for the past four decades has insisted on the policy of “Israel must be wiped from face of the earth.”

Airtight sanctions, a la against the despicable South Africa apartheid, works. U.S. lawmakers get to it.