Axis Week in Brief
A weekly synthesis of coordinated authoritarian information operations across select Iran-led Axis (Hezbollah & Houthis) and aligned state media (Russia & China). Coverage Period: February 3-9, 2026
Iran ran diplomacy and deterrence as parallel tracks through the Muscat channel, negotiating with Washington while Kayhan threatened to close Hormuz and Tasnim amplified an anime depicting U.S. naval assets destroyed in the Persian Gulf. Russia used the New START expiration to position itself as the responsible party in a post-treaty world it helped create. The Epstein files produced the most synchronized cross-ecosystem narrative operation this monitoring period has recorded. And the Houthis framed the return of the world's largest shipping alliance to the Red Sea as transit permitted by Sana'a, not secured by navies. The same week, Sisi declared that Red Sea security is the exclusive responsibility of the countries bordering it.
Week in Brief
The week was dominated by the Muscat channel for Iran–U.S. nuclear negotiations. On Feb 3, Tasnim reported that Pezeshkian had instructed Araghchi to prepare for talks only if they were free of threats, setting the tone for conditional engagement. Over Feb 4–5, Iranian outlets broadcast red lines over scope: missiles, enrichment levels, and regional influence were explicitly declared non-negotiable, narrowing the talks to the nuclear file alone. On Feb 6, Al-Mayadeen’s envoy reported live from Muscat that indirect negotiations had concluded with both sides agreeing to continue dialogue. Throughout, the coordinated narrative insisted Iran was negotiating from strength. By the weekend, the Iran-ecosystem shifted to institutional management: IRNA framed the channel as a “dance of shadows,” parliament announced a closed session to review the process, and Kayhan was already reframing the U.S. return to talks as proof that Washington’s earlier claims about destroying Iran’s nuclear capability were a lie (The logic was straightforward: if Trump actually destroyed Iran’s nuclear capability, why is Washington now negotiating over it?)
Chinese coverage stayed notably inward-facing: APEC "China Year" stewardship, Spring Festival Gala rehearsals, and Guancha asking whether Japan's LDP landslide could avoid a "Truss-style collapse", with limited direct engagement on the Muscat mechanics beyond Xinhua relaying Pezeshkian's "Iran will not accept bullying."
The Houthi ecosystem read the Muscat talks differently. A Houthi outlet ran an op-ed titled “Muscat Negotiations and the Edge of the Abyss,” noting the CENTCOM commander’s presence with the U.S. delegation and concluding that Washington’s demands amount to surrender. When Iran was given those two options, the author wrote, it chose confrontation. The piece also expressed frustration that Russia and China failed to deliver during “the 12-day war,” and argued that Israel no longer wants normalization or the Abraham Accords but submission, claiming that Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, and Qatar all sense it. The framing is notable: the resistance axis is no longer positioning this as “us vs. them” but as “everyone vs. Israel.”
A second major storyline emerged mid-window with the expiration of the New START treaty on Feb 5. Russian outlets led the framing, with RIA Novosti declaring that “now everything will be decided by weapons,” while TASS positioned the lapse as the first time since 1972 that no binding nuclear treaty governed U.S.–Russia arsenals. IRNA carried Guterres calling it “a grave moment,” Guancha reported the only U.S.–Russia nuclear treaty had expired, and by Feb 6, RT was framing the post-treaty environment as one requiring trilateral talks including China. By the weekend, Moscow had pivoted further: RT ran “Europe needs Russia to survive” while RIA’s daily battlefield dashboarding normalized territorial claims as routine scorekeeping. The system was preparing audiences for a world without arms-control guardrails while positioning Russia as the responsible party seeking dialogue.
Beneath these two dominant storylines, persistent threads continued: U.S. institutional decay coverage (from the Epstein scandal’s reach to Hezbollah-aligned and Lebanese outlets coordinating on the Washington Post’s mass layoffs and CEO departure) and Hezbollah-aligned outlets’ sustained documentation of southern Lebanon “environmental extermination” by Israel.
Deep Dive
1. Iran-U.S. Negotiations: Diplomacy and Deterrence as One System
This was the week’s clearest display of how the system actually works. On Feb 4, Kayhan published “the answer to threats is threat, not negotiation” alongside a defense-doctrine shift claim toward “rapid, wide-ranging operations.” Simultaneously, IRNA reported that the White House confirmed that talks would proceed. On Feb 6, Kayhan framed domestic unrest as a CIA-Mossad multi-layer operation under the Supreme Leader’s “war of meaning” guidance; IRNA carried Russia’s “hope for U.S. rationality toward Iran.”
By Feb 7-8, the pattern continued: Kayhan declared “enemies are condemned to defeat” and ran blame-displacement about U.S. sanctions engineering economic pain, while IRNA served the “dance of shadows” diplomatic framing and a Richard Haass quote validating de-escalation. Kayhan maintains deterrence credibility for the IRGC base; IRNA manages the diplomatic optic. Without Kayhan’s deterrence lane, IRNA’s diplomacy loses leverage. Without IRNA’s engagement lane, Kayhan’s deterrence lacks an off-ramp.
By mid-week, Tehran tightened message discipline around the Muscat channel. Pezeshkian stressed “precision in statements related to nuclear talks.” Parliament scheduled a closed session to review the negotiation process, with Araghchi and Chief of Staff Mousavi both attending. IRGC forces arrested 11 leaders of PJAK, a Kurdish militant group operating along Iran’s border with Iraq, on charges of running two sabotage cells in Kermanshah province with direct links to the group’s external leadership. Combined with a hardline outlet’s Feb 6 framing of domestic unrest as a CIA-Mossad multi-layer operation, the pattern is a security posture calibrated for sustained diplomatic engagement: locking down internal threats while keeping the external lane open.
Iranian deterrence messaging ran continuously alongside the Muscat diplomacy. On Feb 3, Iran’s state news agency ran “one week of closing Hormuz is sufficient for the world to recognize Iran’s power” alongside three new space-industry achievements, with a second Iranian outlet framing space as a “new geopolitical environment.” On Feb 5, the same outlet quoted “dozens of Zionist officers” saying Israel had “reached the point of collapse.” On Feb 7, Maj. Gen. Mousavi warned “any adventurism against Iran has a heavy price.” By Feb 8, an Iranian hardline daily was citing the Wall Street Journal to validate that Iran’s missile capability “changed the equations” and assigning regional war consequences to the U.S. and Israel.
On Feb 9, a Houthi newspaper carried Iranian defense ministry claims of new equipment joining defense units, while the Houthi news agency relayed Russian General Staff statements framing AI as “decisive for military superiority.” The external-validation sourcing intensified as the week progressed: WSJ on missiles, an Israeli expert arguing on Israeli radio that Trump’s confrontation with Iran is not about nuclear weapons but about seizing oil reserves to outcompete China. Each deploys a Western or Israeli voice to say what Tehran wants heard but gains credibility by not saying itself.
The deterrence messaging wasn’t limited to editorials and wire quotes. On Feb 7,
Tasnim’s Arabic account published a clip from “Apocalypse War,” a high-production Japanese anime-style series produced by Iran’s Fatima Zahra Animation Studios. The clip, set in “The Middle East 2026,” depicts Iranian Fattah hypersonic missiles, Shahed-series drone swarms, and IRGC fast-attack boats destroying a U.S. carrier strike group in the Persian Gulf. Real U.S. bases are named on screen as targets. U.S. President Trump is shown panicking in the Oval Office. The animation also depicts sea mines and Ghadir-class midget submarines deployed to trap the U.S. fleet before the missile strikes begin. The commander who gives the final launch order is modeled on Qassem Soleimani. Tasnim captioned it: “The confrontation between Iran and America!” This is the IRGC’s deterrence doctrine rendered as entertainment for a younger, anime-consuming audience, and amplified by a state outlet during the same week Iran was negotiating in Muscat.
IRNA ran the most layered coverage of the Muscat channel across the full week: pre-talk ambiguity (”dance of shadows”), managed-tension framing (”diplomacy amid war-mongering navies and lobbies”), external validation (Richard Haass: “Washington never seeks broad conflict with Iran”), and institutional management (parliamentary closed session). A Lebanese Hezbollah-aligned broadcaster deployed its envoy in Muscat for real-time scope reporting, filing five bulletins on Feb 6 alone, each reinforcing that Iran controls the agenda ceiling. The consistent thread: diplomacy is something Tehran permits and controls, not something it seeks. Regional amplification followed the same logic. Tasnim carried Beijing’s reaction to the talks as stabilizing validation, Xinhua ran Pezeshkian’s “Iran won’t accept bullying,” and IRNA amplified a Russian representative’s “sanctions hit a dead end.” Limited mechanical engagement from Moscow or Beijing with the talks themselves, but consistent sovereignty-frame amplification across both ecosystems. On Feb 3, Hezbollah's Qassem called the confrontation with Israel and the United States "part of a regional campaign led by Iran." By Feb 9, he told Al-Manar that "American pressures will not disarm the resistance."
2. New START Expiration and Unconstrained Signaling
The Feb 5 treaty expiration was treated as a structural event across three ecosystems. Russian state wire service ran “first time since 1972” historical framing. A second Russian outlet placed it within an “end of globalization” historiography. By Feb 6, the wire service signaled Oreshnik expansion and Russian state broadcaster proposed trilateral talks with China. By Feb 8, the same broadcaster was running “Europe needs Russia to survive,” while battlefield dashboarding continued to normalize daily territorial claims. Lavrov told NTV the expiration “should not be dramatized” since the treaty had not been in force for three years, and that Russia would not be “the first to take a step towards escalation.” The reassurance ran alongside continued capability marketing of systems that Russia claims put it decades ahead of the U.S.
Houthi outlets mirrored the framing: Saba and a Houthi state newspaper both carried “Moscow says it is no longer bound” wire stories on Feb 5, reinforcing the narrative that the post-treaty world is an American-made danger. By Feb 8, the same newspaper was relaying Lavrov’s warning that Russia “does not intend to attack Europe but is prepared for a comprehensive military response.”
3. Western Delegitimization: Epstein and Institutional Decay
Epstein files saturated coverage across all five ecosystems simultaneously, and unlike most narrative bundles, this one sustained intensity across the full seven-day window. On Feb 5, Houthi outlets ran the most aggressive coverage: one published multiple analysis pieces framing the documents as “organized international blackmail,” a separate piece asked “What do the Epstein documents reveal about the nature of power?”, and the Houthi news agency cited The Spectator on UK political fallout. On Feb 6, a Lebanese Hezbollah-aligned outlet ran a photo report on the “ethical and political dimensions.” On Feb 7, an Iranian hardline daily framed it as “Mossad hostages on the vice island” and a second Iranian outlet ran “Mossad’s leverage tool over deviant American politicians.”
By Feb 8, Hezbollah-aligned and Lebanese outlets coordinated on the Washington Post’s mass layoffs and CEO departure, institutional decay completing the portrait. By Feb 9, a Houthi outlet published “Epstein scandals expose the moral bankruptcy of Western civilization,” and Houthi satellite media ran an extended interview framing the scandal as “a political and moral crisis threatening the West’s global standing.” Elsewhere, the delegitimization ran the full week: Trump calling an athlete a “loser,” Republican lawmakers criticizing Trump over a social media post described as racist, and a Russian outlet’s Bessent piece attributing Iranian protests to U.S. financial actions, giving Russian state imprimatur to Tehran’s blame-displacement narrative. A Houthi satellite channel’s opinion piece framed American immigration restrictions on the Yemeni diaspora as a coercion tool, casting Yemeni-Americans who oppose Sana’a as recruits pressured into service rather than acting on their own volition. The stories are different; the function is identical. U.S. decision-making is compromised from the inside, Western elites are controlled via blackmail, and the moral authority to police others is forfeit.
The targeting varied by ecosystem. Iranian state newspaper Iran dedicated a full two-page spread to Epstein’s Mossad links and Western elite corruption. Houthi newspaper Laa ran a front page splitting Epstein’s face with the Kaaba’s sacred cloth, turning the files into an indictment of Saudi religious custodianship. Same documents, different enemies.
The Russian ecosystem ran the most strategically layered Epstein coverage of any state actor this period. On Feb 9, Lavrov told NTV that the files “have revealed the face of the West and the deep state, or rather a deep union that rules the entire West and seeks to rule the whole world,” calling the contents “pure satanism.” State broadcaster Rossia 24 demonstrated the operational application. A 10-minute Epstein segment named Gates, Musk, and other Western figures while omitting every Russian name that appears in the files. The segment then pivoted to Ukraine: “Zelensky could also have been involved in human trafficking, according to the files. Epstein was keeping a close eye on Ukraine.” RIA Novosti ran the headline: "Zelensky's name is mentioned in the Epstein files in connection with human trafficking," while omitting any connection to Russia.
The Chinese ecosystem invested editorial weight in the Epstein files. On Feb 9, Xinhua ran a dispatch on the political fallout across multiple countries, amplifying Lavrov’s “pure satanism” framing and documenting the cascade of European resignations. Global Times ran a full investigative treatment framing Epstein as evidence of a “dark zone” in American governance “where capital, power, and the judiciary operate in collusion,” sourcing the analysis to a Chinese Academy of Social Sciences researcher.
4. Red Sea New Activity and the Houthi Ecosystem
On Feb 8, a Houthi outlet reported that the Gemini Cooperation, the Maersk/Hapag-Lloyd alliance that is one of the world’s largest shipping partnerships, had announced its return to the Red Sea and Suez Canal. The article is notable for what it includes and what it omits. It attributes the disruption to “Yemeni armed forces launching operations against the entity in support of Palestinians in Gaza.” It ties the return to the Gaza ceasefire. It notes ships will pass “in front of Yemen’s coasts through Bab al-Mandab.” It quotes Maersk expecting a “full return” contingent on no renewal of war.
What it does not mention: the naval escorts that Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd explicitly announced would secure every passage, or the contingency plans to revert routes if security deteriorated. The omission is the signal. In the Houthi media frame, shipping returns because Sana’a’s conditions allow it, not because of military protection. This is consistent with earlier framing: in a 2025 piece, the same outlet reported shipping companies resuming Red Sea transit as a response to “reassurance messages sent by the Sana’a government.” The register has shifted from kinetic boasting to regulatory authority.
The shift itself raises a question. Historically, sustained calm in contested maritime corridors has involved arrangements, whether formal or informal, between the parties that control risk and those that need passage. Houthi media's emphasis on Sana'a "permitting" transit rather than simply not attacking it may reflect something more than narrative preference.
The sovereignty framing found unexpected reinforcement from Cairo. On Feb 8, during talks with Somalia’s president, Sisi declared that “securing the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden is exclusively the responsibility of the littoral states,” explicitly rejecting external security arrangements. Egypt’s motivations differ from the Houthis’, but the positional alignment is striking: both frame the Red Sea corridor as regional sovereign space, not an international security problem requiring outside intervention. When a Houthi outlet and the Egyptian presidency arrive at the same jurisdictional claim from opposite directions, the framing gains structural weight.
On Feb 3, two Houthi outlets reported on U.S.-Israeli joint naval exercises in the northern Red Sea, framing them as “a contradiction between negotiation and preparation for blowing up the region.” Another outlet covered Somalia’s president warning of Israeli involvement in the Horn of Africa as a threat to Red Sea stability. The Houthis’ ecosystem is transitioning its Red Sea narrative from battlefield to jurisdiction.
The Houthi ecosystem this week produced an extensive catalog of governance: over 800 prisoner releases across multiple governorates timed to Ramadan, a branded “Ahlan Ramadan” programming package, renewable energy projects, digital court systems, and price stability declarations. The mobilization track ran in parallel: “Al-Aqsa Flood” combat drills in Taiz, tribal mobilization declarations in Marib, and preparations for a “Fourth International Palestine Conference.” The same population sees both tracks at once. That’s what makes the Houthi project durable for external actors: a militia can be isolated, but a government that also runs a militia is something you have to negotiate with.
The contrast is deliberate. On Feb 9, a defense outlet headlined the UAE deploying “political and media arms” to block the Zandani government from entering Aden. The actual dynamics in the south are murkier: the UAE has largely withdrawn, the STC’s residual networks operate with unclear authority, and no faction exercises clean control over Aden. But the Houthi outlet isn’t trying to report southern politics accurately. The function is contrast: southern figures struggle over a capital none of them fully hold, while the North governs. Separately, a Houthi newspaper carried Kim Jong-un affirming the North Korean army will play “a prominent role in the coming five years,” the first DPRK coverage in the Houthi ecosystem this monitoring period. Throughout the week, Houthi outlets also relayed Iran-U.S. dynamics with increasing granularity: Saba reported Kharrazi describing negotiations as “successful, but all possibilities remain open,” a Houthi newspaper carried Araghchi “responding in kind” to a Witkoff-Kushner “message of force,” and another outlet relayed the Iranian parliament’s closed session on “options for confrontation with Washington.” The ecosystem isn’t just relaying Iran’s diplomatic posture; it’s distributing the full spectrum of Tehran’s Muscat-adjacent signaling.
The documentation extended beyond the Houthi ecosystem. IRNA quantified over 1,520 ceasefire violations and 556 killed in the first days of the window, while a Hezbollah-aligned outlet cited UNICEF-attributed figures of 37 children killed since the start of the year. Houthi outlets carried parallel reports on the same violations: Saba, 26 September, and Al-Thawrah all covered Feb 5 violations, while Saba tracked 15 resistance actions in the West Bank over 24 hours on Feb 6. Three separate ecosystems maintaining independent ledgers of the same ceasefire creates a cross-referenced archive that no single outlet could build alone.
The Gaza ledger serves multiple functions at once. It keeps anti-Israeli sentiment current and emotionally charged, provides the moral justification for continued mobilization (”for Gaza” rather than for any faction’s own strategic interests), and sustains the legal-sounding language of “violations” that positions the ceasefire as something Israel broke and the resistance axis monitors. For the Iran-backed Houthi ecosystem specifically, it connects every tribal mobilization and combat drill to Palestinian suffering rather than to Tehran’s agenda or Sana’a’s territorial ambitions. The documentation is real. The framing of why it’s being documented is the operation.
Solidarity with Iran took a different form. The February 6 rally at Sabaeen Square was branded by Al-Masirah as a million-man march for Palestine. But the event’s own footage showed interviews aired on Houthi media with participants speaking about Iran and Gaza, not as separate causes but as a single continuum. The official branding is Palestine, but the crowd has already internalized the merger: Iranian strategic interests and Palestinian suffering as one undifferentiated cause. The banner reads “steadfast and ready for the next round” without naming what the next round actually serves. Gaza is the stated cause. The infrastructure, the command structure, and the strategic payoff all run through Tehran.
Finally, in an attempt to keep the information environment in Yemen completely controlled, the Houthis launched the #اوبه ("Beware") campaign, warning Yemenis that disclosure can aid America and Israel. The campaign uses the same Epstein material to enforce silence domestically that the ecosystem uses to attack Western moral authority externally. Ideology moves outward as accusation and inward as discipline.
Assessment
The week reveals a system that has learned to run diplomacy and deterrence as a single instrument at different frequencies. That sounds abstract until you watch it work. Iran negotiated in Muscat while Kayhan threatened to close Hormuz. Russia mourned the death of arms control while marketing the weapons that made arms control irrelevant. The Houthis released 800 prisoners for Ramadan while graduating combat units in Taiz. None of these contradictions are accidents. They are the product.
The return of major shipping alliances to the Red Sea, framed by Houthi media as transit permitted by Sana’a rather than secured by navies, suggests the sovereignty claim is beginning to function as commercial reality, not just narrative. When Maersk comes back and nobody challenges the framing, the framing wins. The Houthi ecosystem’s simultaneous output of governance and mobilization reinforces the problem: external actors cannot treat it as a militia to be isolated when it is also branding Ramadan programming, building solar panels, and declaring price stability. Russia’s management of the New START expiration followed a similar logic, positioning itself as the restrained party in a post-treaty world it helped create. And the Epstein saturation across all five ecosystems for seven consecutive days demonstrated something beyond opportunism: it is the most synchronized cross-ecosystem narrative operation this monitoring period has recorded.
The system is preparing audiences for a sustained, low-intensity diplomatic process with Washington that the Axis can present as strength-based engagement without strategic concession. If talks succeed, Iran deterred the aggressor into reason, the resistance held firm, and diplomacy validated the Islamic Republic’s model. If talks fail, the U.S. was never serious, Kayhan was right all along, and the hardliners who warned against trusting Washington get to say they told you so. The infrastructure for both narratives is already built. The talking points are already written. The only thing that changes is which ones get published.
Additional Sources
Iranian Ecosystem
Kayhan
“The answer to threats is threat, not negotiation” (Feb 4): https://kayhan.ir/fa/news/327344/
CIA-Mossad multi-layer operation framing (Feb 6): https://kayhan.ir/fa/news/327485/
“Enemies are condemned to defeat” (Feb 7): https://kayhan.ir/fa/news/327532/
U.S. sanctions blame-displacement (Feb 7): https://kayhan.ir/fa/news/327533/
WSJ missile validation (Feb 8): https://kayhan.ir/fa/news/327547/
PJAK arrests (Feb 8): https://kayhan.ir/fa/news/327549/
IRNA
Ceasefire violations: 1,520 violations and 556 killed: https://www.irna.ir/news/86069494/
“Dance of shadows” Muscat framing: https://www.irna.ir/news/86069500/
Richard Haass: “Washington never seeks broad conflict with Iran”: https://www.irna.ir/news/86072483/
Russia’s “hope for U.S. rationality toward Iran”: https://www.irna.ir/news/86070200/
Russian representative: “sanctions hit a dead end”: https://www.irna.ir/amp/86070798/
Parliamentary closed session: https://www.irna.ir/amp/86071475/
Tasnim
Pezeshkian instructs Araghchi on talks (Feb 3): https://www.tasnimnews.com/3390507
“Dozens of Zionist officers” — Israel “reached the point of collapse” (Feb 5): https://www.tasnimnews.ir/fa/news/1404/11/18/3510762/
Beijing reaction to Muscat talks: https://www.tasnimnews.com/fa/news/1404/11/14/3507513/
“Apocalypse War” anime clip — “The confrontation between Iran and America!” (Feb 7):
https://x.com/Tasnimarabic/status/[see
screenshot]
Russian Ecosystem
RIA Novosti
“Now everything will be decided by weapons” — New START (Feb 5): https://ria.ru/20260205/ssha-2072246239.html
Iran sanctions coverage (Feb 5): https://ria.ru/20260205/iran-2072366506.html
Sanctions framing (Feb 5): https://ria.ru/20260205/sanktsii-2072374316.html
Bessent piece — blame-displacement (Feb 6): https://ria.ru/20260206/bessent-2072588353.html
Battlefield dashboarding (Feb 8): https://ria.ru/20260208/spetsoperatsiya-2073061507.html
TASS
“First time since 1972” — New START historical framing: https://tass.ru/info/26342521
Oreshnik expansion signaling: https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/26365713
RT
Trilateral talks with China proposal (Feb 6): https://russian.rt.com/world/news/1592436-ssha-dogovor-rossiya-knr
“Europe needs Russia to survive” (Feb 8): https://russian.rt.com/world/news/1593009-rossiya-evropa-vyzhivanie/amp
EU dialogue with Russia — Politico framing: https://russian.rt.com/world/news/1592516-es-dialog-rossiya-politico
Kremlin commentary: https://russian.rt.com/russia/news/1592462-peskov-kreml-rossiya
Chinese Ecosystem
Xinhua
Pezeshkian: “Iran will not accept bullying”: https://www.xinhuanet.com/20260206/08d4fc2d45714666a37ac5a8d0a13f33/c.html
Coverage (Feb 8): https://www.xinhuanet.com/20260208/af8f847949e9446a8ea6ffc638974cd4/c.html
Coverage (Feb 8): https://www.xinhuanet.com/world/20260208/3ca7564356ee4e9bb28827f2ff705876/c.html
Guancha
U.S.–Russia nuclear treaty expired: https://www.guancha.cn/internation/2026_02_05_806200.shtml
Japan LDP / “Truss-style collapse”: https://www.guancha.cn/internation/2026_02_08_806514.shtml
CCTV
Coverage (Feb 6): https://news.cctv.com/2026/02/06/ARTIiGvTtWaZULarLDVlyxYw260206.shtml
Coverage (Feb 8): https://news.cctv.com/2026/02/08/ARTIy2KNhMeni2BB3aJRuds8260208.shtml
Hezbollah-Aligned / Lebanese Ecosystem
Al-Manar
Epstein photo report — “ethical and political dimensions” (Feb 6): https://www.almanar.com.lb/article/541722/
UNICEF figures — 37 children killed: https://www.almanar.com.lb/article/542937/
WaPo layoffs and CEO departure: https://www.almanar.com.lb/article/538802/
Southern Lebanon coverage: https://www.almanar.com.lb/article/537257/
Additional coverage: https://www.almanar.com.lb/article/538622/
Additional coverage: https://www.almanar.com.lb/article/118877/
Al-Akhbar
WaPo coordination coverage: https://www.al-akhbar.com/Newspaper%20Articles/lebanon/878252/
Additional coverage: https://www.al-akhbar.com/Newspaper%20Articles/lebanon/878381/
Additional coverage: https://www.al-akhbar.com/news/lebanon/878416/
Additional coverage: https://www.al-akhbar.com/news/lebanon/878429/
Additional coverage: https://www.al-akhbar.com/news/world/878580
Al-Ahed
Epstein — “Heavyweight names”: https://alahednews.news/post/93474/
Al-Mayadeen
Muscat envoy — live scope reporting (Feb 6): https://live.almayadeen.net/latestnews/2026/2/6/
Additional coverage: https://live.almayadeen.net/news/politics/
Houthi Ecosystem
26 September
U.S.-Israeli naval exercises — Red Sea (Feb 3): https://26sep.net/index.php/global/121819-2026-02-03-05-05-19
Additional Red Sea (Feb 3): https://26sep.net/index.php/local/121820-2026-02-03-05-11-07
Coverage (Feb 3): https://26sep.net/index.php/local/121825-2026-02-03-06-06-29
Gaza ceasefire violations (Feb 5): https://26sep.net/index.php/local/121920-2026-02-05-07-22-06
Trump “loser” coverage: https://26sep.net/index.php/sports/121959-2026-02-06-05-09-29
Somalia president — Horn of Africa (Feb 7): https://26sep.net/index.php/local/122034-2026-02-07-13-53-26
Tribal mobilization — Marib (Feb 8): https://26sep.net/index.php/local/122109-2026-02-08-17-31-35
“Ahlan Ramadan” programming (Feb 8): https://26sep.net/index.php/local/122129-2026-02-08-19-18-46
Gemini Cooperation — Red Sea return (Feb 8): https://26sep.net/index.php/local/122131-2026-02-08-19-27-31
Prisoner releases — Ramadan (Feb 8): https://26sep.net/index.php/local/122137-2026-02-08-19-40-40
Price stability declarations (Feb 8): https://26sep.net/index.php/local/122167-2026-02-08-01-09-36
Gemini return — 2025 precedent: https://26sep.net/index.php/local/97357-2025-02-04-19-32-53
UAE “political and media arms” — Aden (Feb 9): https://26sep.net/index.php/local/122184-2026-02-09-05-46-46
Iranian parliament closed session relay (Feb 9): https://26sep.net/index.php/global/122186-2026-02-09-07-23-54
Additional coverage (Feb 9): https://26sep.net/index.php/local/122188-2026-02-09-08-12-54
Additional coverage: https://26sep.net/index.php/newspaper/26locals/122176-2026-02-08-23-24-21
Saba News Agency
“Moscow says it is no longer bound” (Feb 5): https://www.saba.ye/ar/news3641183.htm
New START coverage (Feb 5): https://www.saba.ye/ar/news3641199.htm
Gaza ceasefire violations (Feb 5): https://www.saba.ye/ar/news3641202.htm
Additional coverage (Feb 5): https://www.saba.ye/ar/news3641216.htm
15 resistance actions — West Bank (Feb 6): https://www.saba.ye/ar/news3641722.htm
Lavrov warning relay (Feb 6): https://www.saba.ye/ar/news3641717.htm
“Al-Aqsa Flood” combat drills — Taiz: https://www.saba.ye/ar/news3643175.htm
Digital court systems: https://www.saba.ye/ar/news3643180.htm
Coverage: https://www.saba.ye/ar/news3643212.htm
Coverage: https://www.saba.ye/ar/news3643271.htm
Coverage: https://www.saba.ye/ar/news3643307.htm
Russian AI — military superiority relay: https://www.saba.ye/ar/news3643495.htm
Coverage: https://www.saba.ye/ar/news3643509.htm
Kharrazi — “successful, but all possibilities remain open”: https://www.saba.ye/ar/news3643515.htm
English coverage: https://www.saba.ye/en/news3642438.htm
English coverage: https://www.saba.ye/en/news3642616.htm
“Fourth International Palestine Conference”: https://www.saba.ye/en/news3642670.htm
English coverage: https://www.saba.ye/en/news3642703.htm
English coverage: https://www.saba.ye/en/news3643033.htm
Al-Thawrah
“Moscow no longer bound” (Feb 5): https://althawrah.ye/archives/1133245
Coverage (Feb 5): https://althawrah.ye/archives/1133260
Gaza ceasefire violations (Feb 5): https://althawrah.ye/archives/1133274
Coverage: https://althawrah.ye/archives/1133747
Coverage: https://althawrah.ye/archives/1133753
“Epstein — organized international blackmail”: https://althawrah.ye/archives/1134665
“Nature of power”: https://althawrah.ye/archives/1134746
Coverage: https://althawrah.ye/archives/1135143
Renewable energy projects: https://althawrah.ye/archives/1135156
Coverage: https://althawrah.ye/archives/1135221
Lavrov — “comprehensive military response”: https://althawrah.ye/archives/1135233
Araghchi “responding in kind”: https://althawrah.ye/archives/1135322
Coverage: https://althawrah.ye/archives/1135328
Kim Jong-un — DPRK army (Feb 9): https://althawrah.ye/archives/1135336
Al-Masirah
Epstein — “international blackmail system” (Feb 3): https://masirahtv.net/post/293157
Additional coverage: https://masirahtv.net/post/293159
“Political and moral crisis threatening the West” interview: https://masirahtv.net/post/293611
Diaspora coercion framing: https://almasirah.net.ye/post/293531
Additional coverage: https://almasirah.net.ye/post/293570
“Moral bankruptcy of Western civilization”: https://almasirah.net.ye/post/293645