mohammadreza ghanbari salahshour; nadya agharezaie
Volume 2, Issue 4 , June 2018, , Pages 157-187
Abstract
Today, the media has emerged as a tool for soft warfare against countries opposed to US hegemony, including Iran. The main question of this article is what is the nature of this war? ...
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Today, the media has emerged as a tool for soft warfare against countries opposed to US hegemony, including Iran. The main question of this article is what is the nature of this war? In answer to the main question of this article, this war has been examined in four main areas: the characteristics of media warfare, methods and techniques of media warfare, tools of media warfare, and the goals of the US media war against Iran. At the forefront of imagery, distortion, information manipulation, news bombing, news falsification, and magnification are features of the US media war against target countries. In the second axis, America tries to change the attitude in the minds of the audience through methods such as imagining, resorting to fear, labeling and assassinating the character. In the third axis, the United States is trying to influence the target countries, including Iran, by using media warfare tools such as radio, satellite TV channels, Persian Internet sites, and evangelical networks, as well as by using media techniques such as advertising and highlighting. In the soft war against Iran, the United States pursues its goals through methods such as normalization, democratization, and networking of moderate Muslims, and with three long-term strategies: medium-term and short-term; Presenting a dreadful image of Islam and the Islamic Republic, portraying Iran as the axis of evil, proposing the idea of Islamophobia and Iranophobia, the inefficiency of religion in governing society, instilling a global consensus against Iran.
