From manufacturing consent to masking defeat: 'Iran International' in service of US-Israeli war machine

From [HERE] In today’s West Asia, the simultaneous roar of the swords of war, narrative, and imagery grows louder by the day. The military support, intervention, and direct involvement of the United States in the crimes of the Zionist regime through direct military aggression against Iran, as well as its guidance and arms support for the assaults carried out by this usurping regime, have lost their effectiveness in legitimizing the slaughter of children, women, patients, and others across the region.

Now, even turning nations into servants – nations that gain nothing from allowing the United States and Israel access to and use of their territories and facilities – no longer yields results.

America’s hollow hegemony has been shattered, and the sun of truth has emerged from behind the clouds of lies and staged victimhood media spectacles.

Under such conditions, increasing and repairing media budgets to conceal political and even security objectives, enhancing public relations, advertising, and cognitive operations are no longer merely figures in financial statements but signs of anxiety, defeat, and attempts to escape a deep crisis of legitimacy.

On one side, Israel, by approving an unprecedented budget for hasbara and public diplomacy, is effectively admitting that in the battle for public opinion, especially after the Gaza genocidal war and the aggression against Iran, it faces a serious fracture.

On the other side, propaganda networks such as “Iran International,” the symbol of Persian-language propaganda against Iran, gain meaning within a larger constellation of infiltration operations and perception management; a constellation in which media, lobbying, data, capital, and security are intertwined and wrapped in a veil of hollow claims.

What outwardly appears as “advertising” and “media” is in reality a new form of warfare: a war waged not on land, but in minds, social media feeds, and television frames. Yet the more intensely its flames rise, the more they consume their own creators. [MORE]