A mob breaks into the television headquarters of the Saudi network MBC in Iraq for calling Nasrallah a “terrorist”

A mob of people, between 400 and 500, broke into the headquarters of the Saudi television network MBClocated in Baghdad, and have destroyed part of the property to protest a report broadcast in which he described leaders of pro-Iran groups and former leaders such as that of the Shiite Hezbollah party, Hasan Nasrallah, as “terrorists.”

Iraq’s Media and Telecommunications Commission has revoked the broadcasting license of the Saudi channel MBC and asked the authorities to carry out the suspension of its activities throughout the country. In its video titled “The Millennium of Salvation from Terrorism”, the network directly accused of terrorism, among others, the deceased leader of the Lebanese Shiite militia party, Hasan Nasrallahkilled in an attack attributed to Israel or the Iranian commander Qasem Soleimaniarchitect of Iran’s foreign military policy, killed in Iraq in an attack attributed to the United States.

“The world has gotten rid of many terrorists who have done nothing but shed blood throughout the world», according to a text that accompanied the footage, triggering the protest that began hours later, when dozens of protesters, waving flags of pro-Iran groups in Iraq, showed up at the MBC headquarters to set it on fire.

The Police managed to disperse the demonstration and the flames They ended up controlled by the firefighters, while pro-Iranian deputies called for the suspension of the channel’s activities, as already stated in the commission’s note, published by the Iraqi Kurdish news agency Rudaw.