Iraq cancels license of MBC satellite channel

BAGHDAD, Oct. 20 (YPA) – The Iraqi Communications and Media Commission – CMC announced on Saturday the suspension of MBC channel in Iraq., the Iraqi official news agency reported, citing the CMC’s statement.

“Based on our duty entrusted to us under the laws and legislation to regulate the media sector, prevent violations, and deter violators of national values and public morals, and given the MBC satellite channel’s violation of media broadcasting regulations via its repeated violations and its attacks on the martyrs, leaders of victory, and heroic resistance leaders who are fighting the battle of honor against the usurping Zionist entity, we confirm taking all necessary legal measures and suspending it from operating in Iraq,” the CMC’s statement read.

The statement added, “We direct the executive body in our Commission to cancel the work license granted to MBC.”

Angry demonstrators had stormed the headquarters of MBC Iraq in Baghdad, damaging its property before setting it on fire in response to the channel’s attacks on resistance leaders, labeling them as “terrorists.”

Meanwhile, Iraqi politicians and parliamentarians affirmed that “this channel and similar ones have no place in Iraq, and efforts will be made to revoke its license.”

@E.Y.M