A Staten Island businessman was sentenced Thursday to nearly six years in prison for assisting terrorists by providing satellite television services to Hezbollah’s television station, Al Manar.

The businessman, Javed Iqbal, 45, said in a statement read by his lawyer in Federal District Court in Manhattan that he was “deeply sorry” for what he called a mistake that hurt him “financially, emotionally and physically.”

“I have not harmed anyone in my whole life,” he said in the statement to Judge Richard M. Berman, who sentenced him to 69 months.

Mr. Iqbal, who emigrated to the United States from Pakistan as a teenager, ran his business from a Brooklyn storefront and the garage of his home in Mariners Harbor, Staten Island, which had satellite dishes in the backyard. The United States Treasury Department has designated Al Manar  “the beacon” in Arabic  a global terrorist entity.