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.

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…

An armed Iranian state TV presenter fired at a United Arab Emirates flag during a broadcast amid signs of growing public militarization in Iran. It came as US President Donald…