Learn to deceive and lie.. Houthi media courses, whose lecturers are Iranian and Lebanese experts

English - Monday 13 September 2021 الساعة 10:08 am
Sana'a, NewsYemen, private:


The Houthi militia, the Iranian arm in Yemen, summoned a number of media professionals working in some official and private channels and newspapers, as well as television cameramen, to attend a week-long training course set up by the militias.

The sources said that the media professionals who attended the course received intensive lectures on the religious aspect and the aspect related to media work methods and photographic arts, ways and means of arranging and implementing specialized media campaigns that focus on predetermined issues and in which all cadres belonging to, affiliated, or working under the command of militias or in private institutions to their control.

The sources revealed to NewsYemen that, in addition to the religious lectures they received from leaders belonging to the militias, most of whom worked for the Executive Office and the Cultural Authority, they were surprised that the qualitative lectures on the media aspect were given by leaders and foreign media experts, some of them Lebanese and some of them Iranian, even if they speak Arabic. They pointed out that these lectures were conducted through video clips that are played on a display screen for the attendees in the course.

According to the sources, the contents of the religious lectures delivered at the session focused on the importance of intensifying the media for what they called the Qur’anic culture and its themes, which mainly focus on consolidating people’s awareness of the importance of celebrating the special occasions of the militias, most notably the state occasion, and the Karbala occasions in which they mourn the martyrdom of Hussein and other occasions. Their own, which extends over the course of almost a year, noting that the lectures included a penance for all those who stand or oppose the Houthi militia, describing them as hypocrites, takfiris, ISIS, agents and mercenaries.

On the other hand, the sources confirm to NewsYemen that the lectures they received from Iranian experts and others affiliated with the Lebanese Hezbollah, the Iranian arm in Lebanon, focused on the importance of managing coordinated and intense media campaigns that are based on collective, simultaneous publication, and density in terms of publication to include all media outlets. Visual, audio, print and even social media.

The sources say: Among the trends that Iranian and Lebanese experts talked about to the participants in the course is that the pre-prepared media campaigns are important and must achieve success regardless of the contents on which they are based, even if those contents are rumors, exaggerations and fabricated information about the issue on which the campaign is being implemented. media around.

According to the sources, when some of the participants presented notes describing the use of the contents of rumors and lies and the use of misleading methods as unprofessional and the media outlets and the media may lose their credibility and their audience, the response of the course organizers was that the important thing is to serve the goal and the project, which is to support the axis of resistance that is waging a war against America. And Israel and their Arab allies, and that anything is permissible in order to serve this project, even if it is lying, deception and falsification.