{"id":259298,"date":"2026-08-21T16:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/259298\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T16:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:44:09","slug":"shafaq-news-iraq-military-intelligence-upholds-media-restrictions-for-personnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/259298\/","title":{"rendered":"Shafaq News..Iraq military intelligence upholds media restrictions for personnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-08-21T15:13:41+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News- Baghdad<\/p>\n<p>Iraq\u2019s Military Intelligence Directorate on Friday reaffirmed restrictions on media appearances by its personnel, directing them to raise complaints through the chain of command instead.<\/p>\n<p>The Directorate\u2019s chief, Staff Lieutenant General Hassan Jawad <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Iraq\/Iraq-appoints-Hassan-Jawad-Al-Silawi-as-Director-of-Military-Intelligence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Al-Silawi<\/a>, said military orders prohibit personnel from appearing in the media, arguing that such appearances harm the reputation of the armed forces. A directive from the Iraqi Army leadership also requires commanders, directors, intelligence officers, and media officers to meet regularly with troops and address complaints through established legal procedures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-08-21T15:13:41+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Baghdad Iraq\u2019s Military Intelligence Directorate on Friday reaffirmed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[152,94,71323,9856],"class_list":["post-259298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-breaking","tag-iraq","tag-iraq-military-intelligence-upholds-media-restrictions-for-personnel","tag-military-intelligence"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117134508929766023","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}