Political analyst Muayyad Al-Ali believes that the media campaign against Hezbollah Brigades and the city of Jurf al-Nasr has been planned for years, explaining that the goal of this campaign is to bring terrorism back to that area and stand against the resistance after it rejected the plans of occupation and normalization.
Al-Ali stated in a statement seen by the Video News Agency that "Hezbollah Brigades are considered the spearhead of the resistance within Iraq and have their achievements, in addition to being the most organized, disciplined, and fierce against the enemies, whether the American occupier or ISIS terrorism, as history testifies to that. Additionally, they have not retreated from their positions regarding the sovereignty of Iraq and its rights, and have offered many martyrs in the path of resistance and jihad."
He added that "the enemies' arrows, both inside and abroad, have become directed at the brigades as they represent an obstacle to dragging Iraq towards normalization, which is why there is a systematic media campaign to demonize the brigades in the eyes of the Iraqi people, at a time when the people know who the sacrifices are and which parties have gone after positions and financial gains."
He pointed out that "the attack against the brigades comes as part of a plan that has been in place for years to target this formation due to its positions supporting Iraq's sovereignty and rejecting occupation, normalization, and submission to terrorism," noting that "the steadfastness of Hezbollah Brigades in the field is sufficient to thwart and bring down all plans, as everything raised about oil smuggling from Jurf al-Nasr has not been accompanied by real evidence sufficient to prove the existence of such a matter."
He clarified that "the focus on Jurf al-Nasr and the campaign launched against the brigades in that area is due to the fact that this region represents a strategically important and complex knot, which terrorist groups used as a base for leadership and control due to its difficult and rugged geography, making it essential to ensure that terrorism does not return there, as this would represent a targeting of the Shia of Iraq and the holy shrines in the south," pointing out that "the goal of the current campaign is to bring terrorism back to Jurf al-Nasr as it was before the liberation operations."