Ministers of information of the member states of the Arab Coalition Supporting Legitimacy in Yemen discussed during their first meeting in Jeddah Saturday the development of media plans for the coalition states to confront the Iranian infiltration in Yemen and the region. They also called for specifying the needs of the legitimate Yemeni government to confront the media machinery of the Houthis and Iran in the region and the world. Saudi Information Minister Dr. Awwad al-Awwad stressed in his opening speech, before his counterparts from 13 different countries, the necessity to confront "misleading media" by intensifying efforts to expose the crimes of the Iranian-supported Houthi militias, joint coordination and standardization of media discourse among the Saudi-led coalition countries. In his speech, Awwad said that the coalitions efforts are not only limited to military, political and humanitarian aspects but also extends to "media support in all its traditional and modern means, with a high level of quality in content and adherence to general professional standards based on press and media codes of ethics." “You are aware of what media stations hostile to the coalition countries and the legitimate government in Yemen are doing to falsify, deceive, fabricate stories, propagate rumors, broadcast distorted information, influence minds and emotions and downgrade Yemeni army and coalition forces’ success in diplomatic and various fields,” he told the ministers. The ministers discussed in a closed session the development of media plans through reviewing and determining Iranian media policies, studying mechanisms to deal with Iranian infiltration in Yemen and the region and developing media campaigns and plans for this penetration. The meeting called for publishing the statements of the spokesman and the joint forces in the news agencies of the Saudi-led coalition states, broadcasting the weekly press conference in the official news of the coalition states and standardizing the media messages, in addition to arranging visits of the media officials to Yemen and the border areas and holding meetings with coalition leaders from different countries. It also recommended monitoring the successful experiences in research centers and specialized studies in the field of combating extremism and terrorism and establishing a mechanism to benefit from the results of studies of centers of research and specialized studies in the same field.