Gargash lashes out at pro-Iran media
Gulf News Report
The UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Dr Anwar Mohammad Gargash, has lashed out at pro-Iran media for continuing to disseminate false news about Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
“False news from Iranian sources, such as the Fars News Agency and Al Akhbar newspaper, against the UAE and Saudi Arabia, continue,” he posted on his Twitter account. “Let us check the source and the confused ones who initiate false news to target us,” he said, adding that it was a part of a “distortion” campaign.
On Tuesday, Fars News Agency claimed that Saudi Arabia and the UAE were recruiting thousands of African mercenaries to serve in their military forces overseas, including Yemen.
“The Kingdom is likely using Chadian mercenaries in its operations abroad,” the agency said, citing quotes by “Saudi sources” to Al Quds Al Arabi newspaper, a Londonbased daily reportedly funded since 2013 by Qatar.
Iranian and pro-Iranian media and their supporters have been publishing and posting aggressive anti-Saudi Arabia and anti-UAE news, making use of fake news to discredit them locally, regionally and internationally.
The war in Yemen against Iran-backed Al Houthis, the situation in Syria and Iraq, developments in Syria and the Qatar crisis have been exploited by fake news media to target Riyadh and Abu Dhabi for their positive stances.