Iranian state television is reporting that five people have been arrested for working for the BBC’s Farsi-language service.
A report on the channel’s website says the group provided the BBC with video and “negative news reports on Iran.”
Iran has blocked the channel and accused it, along with the British government, of fomenting mass protests that originally broke out after Iran’s disputed presidential election in 2009.
The BBC’s Farsi service has no office in Tehran.
