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Vast nationwide demonstrations, related to the deteriorating economy, unemployment and rampant corruption, have kicked off in Iraq and Lebanon, which the terrorist trio, i.e., the United States, Saudi Arabia and the Zionist enemy, manipulated to threat the two countries' security and unity.

Those provocateurs have been working hard to stoke up the unrest in order to spread hysterical chaos and impose internal conflicts. Their chief goal is to topple these governments and weaken the political parties, affiliated with the resistance axis.

Remarkably, this trio has, on the contrary, thwarted the righteous uprisings of the Yemen and Bahrain peoples.

Hezbollah's Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrullah has already invited supporters to stay off the streets, suggesting that they were instigated by foreign countries to attack the resistance and overthrow Lebanon's entire governmental establishments and impose a political vacuum.

Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei, the Islamic Revolution's Supreme Leader, said on Wednesday, ''The U.S. and Western intelligence agencies, with the help of money from regional countries, are instigating unrest in the region,'' adding, ''I advise Lebanon and Iraq to make it a priority to stabilize these security threats.''

Indeed, the mainstream media, in particular, the Saudi media, have shown their blatant interference, since the outbreak of popular movements in both Iraq and Lebanon.

The Saudi media, and behind them the Zionists and the Americans, have contributed to fueling the unrest and diverting the compass towards the resistance movements, in an attempt to manipulate the peoples' rage and switching the human rights speech into a divisive one.

The reason is clearly visible, which is the outstanding victories achieved by the axis of resistance, led by the Islamic Republic of Iran, in addition to the outstanding triumph in the fields, achieved by the Syrian Arab Army, in Idlib, and the barefoot Yemenis against the hostile Saudi-led coalition in Abqaiq and Khurais.

This strife violates all prominent media covenants in its dealing with the popular movements, by fabricating lies, spreading rumors and distorting rhetoric calling for reason and dialogue, which consequently influence the national, social and economic security of these two peoples.

The sole goal of the Saudi money is to oppose the axis of resistance's projects through unethically hijacking media which serve the ambition of the war criminal, namely Mohammed bin Salman.

The Saudi control of the Arab media is no secret. Just yesterday, Al-Manar TV's Twitter Arabic, French, English and Spanish accounts have been deliberately suspended and without prior notice.

Al-Manar is a Lebanese satellite television station affiliated with Hezbollah and has been designated since 2004 as a ''Specially Designated Global Terrorist entity,'' by the United States.

Al- Manar accused the US-based social media platform of giving in to political pressures by the US Congress, Republicans and Democrats.

Twitter’s pretext for suspending the accounts, on Saturday, is that ''There is no place on Twitter for illegal terrorist organizations and violent extremist groups.''

While al-Manar is known for its objectivity and accuracy in conveying truths, Saudi broadcasters, Al-Hadath TV, Al Arabiya and others, deal with events in a manner that serves the monarchy's vicious agendas and anti-resistance policies.

This has been evident throughout the war imposed on the Syrians, the siege imposed on the Yemenis, and then the attempt to promote normalization with the Zionist enemy and the so-called 'deal of the century,' and more recently devastating the popular uprisings of Lebanon and Iraq.

Here we must draw attention to what has been revealed by Assistant Professor in Middle East Studies and Digital Humanities at Hamad bin Khalifa University, Marc Owen Jones, who affirmed that suspicious Saudi accounts on Twitter become active, during Lebanon protests to criticize Hezbollah and spreading anti-Iranian propaganda.

Jones stressed that "as different forces are trying to inflame tensions in other countries, polluting organic discussions with inorganic content."

The Saudi media has exploited popular demands to penetrate and ignite tensions, amid the absence of accountability and the complicity of some concerned media institutions, which comply with the pressure of the Saudi Embassy.

This media is oriented to distort the balanced, inclusive and rational national discourse and adopt the discourse of sedition, threats, intimidation, bigotry, sectarianism and hatred.

The heresies of this Mafia media once again prove the recklessness of its repressive dictatorial regimes, which ignores that the experiences of the so-called "Arab Spring" have contributed to the awareness of the peoples, enlightened the public opinion and formed a sort of collective memory by the Arab masses.

Hence, it is quite essential to cut off the hidden hands that seek to create skirmishes and chaos in both Iraq and Lebanon.

The hope and bet remain on the consciousness of the Lebanese and Iraqi peoples who have sacrificed pure blood to confront the divisive Takfiri schemes.

The peoples are asked to persistently defy the hypocrisy of the Saudi media, by fortifying their internal arenas, their emphasis on stability and civil peace and their obedience to their responsible and shrewd national leaders.

*(Top image: credit: H. Sumeri/ Twitter)


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