BAGHDAD (Dispatches) – The Secretary-General of the Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq movement, Qais al-Khazali, on Saturday accused Western “embassies and intelligence agencies” of waging a “soft war” against the Iraqis via injecting billions of dollars to promote “gender, women empowerment, and sexual freedom” agenda. Speaking at a commemorative event for a fallen leader of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces-PMF), al-Khazali said, “various forms of distortion and psychological, media, and intellectual warfare have been practiced against the Iraqis through different means of so-called soft war, propagated on social media platforms run by electronic armies backed by several embassies, intelligence agencies, and others who have spent billions of dollars to distort the beliefs, morals, customs, and traditions of those people.”
“Billions of dollars are being spent monthly by certain countries and embassies to support so-called civil society organizations promoting gender, women’s empowerment, and sexual freedom”, he noted, “one of these countries spends $3 billion annually in this domain.”