Al-Iman Channel "... the new face of Iran in Sanaa
English - Tuesday 02 February 2021 الساعة 09:07 am
Sana'a, NewsYemen, Report / Asim Al-Shamiri
The arrival of Iran's ambassador to Sanaa, Hassan Erlo, represented a new addition to the path of sectarian mobilization in the areas controlled by the Houthi militia - Iran's arm in Yemen - that was previously restricted to cultural and military courses, to which the militias are mobilizing youth, which are closed circles in isolated areas. On the external communication in which the minds of young people are washed, and recently the Iranian ambassador supervised the funding of the Al-Iman channel, to be a new sectarian platform for the ideology of Yemeni society within a project that serves Tehran's foreign policy.
Channel origination
Al-Iman Channel was established in 2008 as an official religious channel affiliated with the Yemeni Ministry of Information, aiming at the time to provide Yemeni society with a moderate religious discourse that respects the principles of coexistence and acceptance of others. Al-Saleh Mosque and the headquarters of the Al-Iman channel, and the channel continued to broadcast without an ideological approach until the time of the arrival of the Iranian ambassador and his funding for the channel, as it began its new sectarian and racist approach.
What does the channel offer now?
Today's Al-Iman channel, with its new sectarian look, includes a group of mobilizing religious programs that focus in its discourse on targeting the Yemeni family, and organizes religious seminars for children and women, in addition to flash drives that tell stories of children and youth who were killed in the ranks of terrorist militias and transforming these victims into role models that are supposed to emulate them.
The channel also focuses on devoting the idea of guardianship and absolute faith in the leader of terrorist militias and the sanctity of the battle of the so-called Axis of Resistance, under whose title Iran messes in the Middle East region and produces songs of mourning for Qasem Soleimani and Abu Al Mahdi translated into Persian "Iranian". This extremist discourse is also presented with a social orientation. It is widespread in the areas controlled by terrorist militias within what it called "the identity of faith," which is the broad title of all reactionary and sectarian practices of the militias in their areas of control.
The original channel copy
The Iranians and their terrorist arm in Yemen have reproduced the policy of the sectarian Lebanese Al-Iman Channel, with its programs, content, goals, and programs it offers. The Yemeni government has done it through the sectarian media policy of Al-Iman channel in Sana'a.
Targeting children in the first place
Al-Eman channel is now seeking to expand the ideology of children's minds in schools and through cultural courses and sectarianization of the curriculum, as the channel comes as another weapon of the Houthis to kill children and youth and plunge them into a sectarian war within a regional conflict.
NewsYemen followed the Houthi’s programs and workshops for children, as well as coverage of school radio stations that focus on terrorist militias and involve students in participating in schools located in their areas of control, and through which they present extremist ideological discourse aimed at turning children into fuel for the battles of Iranian influence in Yemen.
The channel broadcasts school radio stations from schools approved by the so-called Ministry of Education of the terrorist Houthi militia as the Al-Walaa School, which focuses on teaching children the curriculum of Hussein Badr Al-Din Al-Houthi, or what is known as "The Lieutenant". On the battle fronts as shown in the attached video.
Knowledge and jihad
At the beginning of the "Science and Jihad" program, the instructor questions the students in the episode "What is love?" The students replied, "Love is to follow" and stresses the need for them to follow "the master".
This is one of the educational programs that the channel broadcasts and visualizes from the Al-Saleh Mosque, and the program targets children who do not exceed the age of 13 years, and in it children appear in a circle in the middle of this prompt and in his hand are Houthi booklets printed with the slogan (The Scream), and children are also taught ideas It is related to complete subordination and loyalty to the leader of terrorist militias and filling their minds with jihadist ideas.
woman
Children are not only a favorite for the Houthis, but the ideology affects women, housewives and widows, as the channel devotes in this aspect sectarian educational programs, as well as broadcasts documentary films for women who have devoted their lives to serving their sectarian project, and the channel broadcasts many events and activities for women that they establish in many Villages and provinces under their control.
Reverence for graves
The channel devotes a large part to the militia's dead and works on making a lot of video materials as flash drives for the dead they named (jihadist models) in addition to covering all activities of visiting graves, and it also holds school trips to graves as well as to the so-called (martyrs exhibitions) that they hold.
"As far as loyalty and belonging is, empowerment is in the community." This is how the announcer speaks in a pleading voice and with a tone similar to his creed.
Al-Iman Channel is one of the most dangerous media outlets that Iran runs with Houthi tools from the center of Sanaa, and its danger lies in its direct loyalty to Iran and its work to consecrate the importance of engaging in Iran's battles and encapsulating this trend that fragments the fabric of Yemeni society with a religious ideological cover that has proven disastrous for countries mired in chaos. Sectarian Iran in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, and today Yemen is added to this dark list.
