INA - BAGHDAD

The Communications and Media Commission - CMC announced on Saturday the suspension of MBC channel in Iraq.

"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," said CMC in a statement - received by the Iraqi News Agency - INA. 

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