RIYADH: Abdul Moneim Al-Mushawwah, the director of the Sakina Campaign, which operates under the supervision of the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, revealed what he called a fierce electronic campaign against the Kingdom led by Iran.

Al-Mushawwah said there are platforms on social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, blogs) led by the Iranians that aim to incite sedition and spread chaos in Saudi Arabia.

The owners of these accounts use more than one method to market their media contents, including the use of Saudi names to suggest that the owner of the account is a Saudi citizen.

"The postings take advantage of events that take place within the Kingdom, to spread chaos and weaken the confidence in the country and its efforts, including such incidents as the crane collapse at the Grand Mosque, and the Mina stampede that were exploited by these accounts against the Kingdom," Al-Mushawwah said.

"The Iranian methods on social networking sites include inciting Shiites in the Kingdom and speaking on their behalf, and customizing the platform to discredit Saudi scholars and the security of the country, and alleging that there are Saudi revolutionists and dissidents (working) against the government,” the official said.

This has been met with a plan that involves the launch of a three-pronged campaign including a legitimate, scientific component, where a knowledge-based platform has been built containing more than 80 articles dealing with, and disintegrating sedition. The articles have been marketed on websites.

The second component includes communicating with the owners of social networking sites and agreeing about the use of a typeface in publishing, as well as contacting Saudi Shiite sites that were highly responsive.

The third part is monitoring and competent analysis in the confrontation and a treatment mechanism process.

Through monitoring and data analysis, the campaign discovered a tremendous, uninterrupted flow of pages and sites that are launched from Iran.

The goal of communications within these pages and sites was to demonstrate the facts, because they present/display what offends and gives Islam and the Kingdom a bad name, and raises sedition against them. However, the dialogue was fruitless and it was found that these pages and accounts emanate from Iran.

Oddly enough, these accounts are of a methodology that contain lies and forgery of the facts. Some were made to appear Saudi-administrated, while, in fact, they are run from Iran. Other accounts negatively discuss private Saudi problems, which prompted Al-Sakina Commission to intensify its work in this direction, and the outcome was positive and benefited more than 1 million targets.