[5] On 1 April 2014, all World Service funding transferred to the Licence Fee model,[citation needed] which is paid for by all UK residents who watch television as it is broadcast.

[9][10][11] In response, BBC Persian started transmission on other satellites and increased their broadcast hours in order to combat the interference[12] The channel has been accused by Iranian state television of encouraging "illegal" rallies and manipulating the Iranian people against the Islamic Republic, a claim which the BBC denies.

The jamming resumed on 20 December 2009, soon after BBC Persian began extended coverage of the protests resulting from the death of leading reformist cleric Grand Ayatollah Hoseyn Ali Montazeri,[13] and on 28 December 2009, BBC Persian ceased its transmission from the Hot Bird 6 satellite,[14] however, transmissions continued from the Telstar 12, Eutelsat W2M and Atlantic Bird 4A satellites.

[15] After a new jamming in February 2011 on Hotbird, BBC Persian showed for some months only a test card along with the audio of their service.

Due to the ban on foreign reporters in Iran, the news service currently relies on a significant amount of user-generated content, often taken with mobile phones.

[21] It appears that Iranian presidential election, 2009 and what followed greatly elevated BBC Persian TV's stature and importance.

[24] Programmes cover a variety of genres including current affairs, documentaries, light entertainment, culture, science, business and the arts.

Entertainment programmes such as BBC Sound, Sherlock, Glastonbury Festival and Top Gear are broadcast with Persian dubbing.

Majid's exceptional command over both English and Persian languages makes him one of the very few fluent simultaneous translators within the service.

Najieh began her broadcasting career in 2001 as a reporter for the BBC Persian service in Mashhad: the capital of Khorasan province in northeast Iran.

Farnaz Ghazizadeh has worked for some of Iran's most respected newspapers, including Neshat, Yas-e Nou and the weekly Zan (Woman).

In December 2003 Farnaz emigrated to the Netherlands with her family, where she joined several other Iranian journalists to start the news website Roozonline.