Abdollah Shahbazi has published countless Jewish conspiracy and anti- Baha’i’ articles and books in the Persian language for more than three decades, said Behnam Golipour, an Iranian journalist based in the Czech Republic.
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Sweden launches ‘Psychological Defence Agency’ to counter propaganda from Iran
Sweden has launched a new agency dedicated to defending the country against disinformation, propaganda and psychological warfare in the latest part of its efforts to bring military and civil defence back towards Cold War levels.
Khamenei meets with Iranian nurses in propaganda bid
On December 12, reports came in from Iranian state-media outlets that the Iranian regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has met with several nurses and family members of medical personnel who had died during the Covid-19 outbreak in Iran despite the regime’s poor COVID-19 response.
Iran-Hezbollah help Hamas and Islamic Jihad trounce Israel with propaganda
Hamas and Islamic Jihad have become serious propaganda professionals who think carefully about which influence campaigns to invest in.
Massoud Shadjareh
Massoud Shadjareh, the chairman of the IHRC, spoke of of Ayatollah Khomeini, the cleric who became Iran’s supreme leader after the 1979 revolution, as “a torch of light for the whole of mankind”
Ezzatollah Zarghami – Iranian Propagandist and Source of Global Deception
November 4 marks the anniversary of the Iran hostage crisis. Forty-two years later, one of the hostage-takers, Ezzatollah Zarghami, has become the regime’s Minister of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts, and Tourism.
Iranian-Americans demand US college fire professor accused of covering up Iranian war crimes
Mohammad Jafar Mahallati was named in an Amnesty International report as someone who could have prevented the mass execution of Iranian dissidents in the 1980s, yet did nothing.
Khamenei shows poster with terrorist Soleimani and BDS supporters
The office of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran issued a poster showing fighters being led by the late US-sanctioned Iranian terrorist Qassem Soleimani along with supporters of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign targeting Israel.
Tehran’s agenda of controlling the succession of the most senior Shiite cleric in Najaf
On 3 September, Iraq witnessed the passing of Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Saeed al-Hakim who died aged 85 in Iraq’s Shiite holy city of Najaf. Hakim was one of the top four Shiite clerics who were part of the Shiite religious authority in Najaf which is commonly known as the marja’iyya.
New state TV chief might ensure influence of Khamenei’s son
Iranian media have been speculating about the imminent appointment of the Iranian state television’s new chief since May 2021 when the five-year term of the organization’s current chief Abdol Ali Aliaskari came to an end. He was appointed to the post by the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in May 2016.
Iran’s Disinformation Ecosystem – A Snapshot
Iran’s propaganda and disinformation operations receive less attention than do the Russians’, but Tehran’s commitment to information warfare is substantial. Iran can’t move the opinions of American voters the way the Russians might—their reach into U.S. audiences remains too limited.
