REUTERS explains:
Iraq has suspended the license of a U.S.-government funded broadcaster after it ran an investigation alleging corruption within the country’s religious institutions.
The country’s media regulator on Monday shut down the local offices of Al Hurra television - a regional network funded by the U.S. Agency for Global Media - for three months, accusing the network of bias and defamation in their report.
It's the equivalent of VOICE OF AMERICA. And that cute little name? "US Agency for Global Media"? It's the Board of Governors responsible for the propaganda broadcast by VOA. In addition, it's also the US Congress that funds them.
So what di they broadcast? This:
The 12-minute documentary broadcast Saturday claimed that Sunni and Shiite Muslim authorities were misusing state funds and had suspicious ties to armed factions.
The Sunni endowment denied the allegations in the report and said it would take legal steps against the channel. The Shiite endowment could not immediately be reached for comment.
Is it true or just more efforts by the US government to pit Sunni against Shia?
- Sounds right: "The campaign against Al Hurra could be part of Iran's efforts to curb America's influence out of the country," an Iraqi official, who chose to remain anonymous, told The National. https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/iraq-suspends-us-funded-al-hurra-channel-over-investigation-into-religious-corruption-1.905600 …
Or could just be an effort to stop foreign propaganda from being broadcast in Iraq.
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