The Iraqi government threatened in an official statement to hold media institutions that market what it described as "weapons outside the framework of the state" responsible. This threat comes at a time when the government continues to hold meetings and interviews on Gulf channels that openly display hostility towards the Iraqi people, regime and government, despite the fact that the offices of these channels operate in the capital Baghdad normally and without any restrictions.

The Iraqi government threatened in an official statement to hold media institutions that market what it described as "weapons outside the framework of the state" responsible. This threat comes at a time when the government continues to hold meetings and interviews on Gulf channels that openly display hostility towards the Iraqi people, regime and government, despite the fact that the offices of these channels operate in the capital Baghdad normally and without any restrictions.