DUBAI: An Iranian state TV presenter has drawn severe criticism after shooting at a United Arab Emirates flag during a live television segment promoting firearms training.
The broadcast, which aired on Iran’s state-run Ofogh channel this week, featured a masked member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) demonstrating the use of an assault rifle resembling an AK-47.
Near the end of the segment, presenter Hossein Hosseini pointed the rifle at a UAE flag placed inside the studio and fired at it, before discharging another round into the ceiling.
UAE authorities had not publicly responded to the incident at the time of reporting.
The broadcast has attracted attention of social media users in the Gulf who viewed the incident as a symbolic attack on another country and incitement to hatred towards the UAE.
