The Press TV network resumed broadcasting its programs in England on the Sky Platform in the beginning of July.
The Iranian news network is broadcast on channel 200 of the Sky Platform for four hours a day, two of which are recorded programs from a day earlier.
The British Office of Communications (Ofcom) revoked Press TV's broadcasting license in January 2012 and removed the network from the Sky Platform, saying the network violated the broadcasting code.
The British media regulator stepped up pressure on Press TV after the news network covered British police crackdowns on protesters in London and other British cities.
The signal of Press TV has been jammed or interrupted many times on the Nilesat satellite provider, SES Astra, and the Hotbird satellite provider over the past year.
Ofcom is said to have close ties to the British royal family. And cables released by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks show that Press TV's programs on the royal wedding, which many in the country described as extravagant, angered the royal family.
Many observers have also noted that the British government's hostile campaign against Press TV has its roots in the network's extensive and transparent coverage of the role that the British government played in the killing of tens of thousands of innocent people in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Press TV has also given extensive coverage to Britain's support for autocratic Persian Gulf monarchies and its attempts to legitimize the dictatorial regimes in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
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