The Obstacles to Establish the Desired Satellite Television Model in Iranian Legal System

Incredible development in communications, especially in the last two decades, has changed the entire worlds communications system. The main accessibility to new information system by advanced technology and huge investments in this field shows a new description of power and its balance in the present world. Therefore, the relationship between government and mass media, in different legal systems, in three stages of policy making, legislation and regulation plays a big and effective role in this regard. It has to be said that audiovisual communications have not been subject to the same legal systems governing the rest of the media, and in all of the political regimes in the world, government interventions in this sector have always been more intense. This article is an attempt to localize and recognize the obstacles to establish the desirable satellite television model in Iranian legal system by introducing the American model in the field of satellite communications, as the desirable model in the world.