Crack down on satellite dishes in Tehran

The police of Tehran is heavily cracking down on satellite dishes in populated areas such as Shahrak-e gahrb etc.
Holding warrants, they enter buildings and collect satellite dishes and LMBs (not sure about the digital receivers) from their rooftops. In some cases they've also also fined them for over a thousand dollars.

The perception is this time they are quite serious, although they've done this almost every summer. It's been part of the seasonal crack down on the 'Western' phenomenas, under the pressure from the influential radical religious groups.

But this time, I believe, it's different. It appears to be part of a larger policy to control all channels of information and establish a total monopoly on the emerging new media.

The internet censorship is intensified, newspapers are controlled using secret orders and requests, and now satellite dishes.

But I think it'd be extremely difficult to crack down on satellite access. Because it's a direct technology, unlike internet which needs mediators as ISPs; the equipment is relatively cheap and increasingly available through trafficking, and Iranian TV has yet to fully satisfy the young urban population.

But there's also something positive about this for the moderates: The disillusioned middle-class which either didn't take part in the last elections or voted for Ahmadinejad hoping for change, can now feel the change in their daily life.

The more people can feel the difference between the reformist government and the new one, the more it's likely they participate more in the upcoming elections.