Ali Kaffashian said that his federation will ban all the IRIB cameras from football stadiums, if the two sides cannot come up with an agreement on TV broadcast rights.

Kaffashian said “By the end of this season , the agreement with IRIB , the official and government owned broadcaster,will tome to an end. “We have talked to Zarghami (Head of IRIB) several times and told him about our intention to provide the State Run TV , an exclusive right of covering Iranian domestic football for a contract worth 160 billion toman ( Approx US$ 62,713,100 )” US total . If we do not reach an agreement , we will stop them broadcasting and covering matches. We are sticking to this contract , but we will give them a leeway by providing some discount !”

Currently , football federation receives a minute figure for the TV stations which broadcast the league and the Team Melli matches to the public.

There is no privately run TV stations in Iran and the failure to strike a deal with State Run IRIB means that there is no other choices but to have a TV football black out. Kaffashian and his administration are trying to provide a deal with the broadcasters on par with FIFA guidelines