Iranian Media Experts: Trojan Horses
“The saying ‘All that glitters is not gold’ applies to the ‘soft power system’ that Iran has worked to entrench in the Arab mind since 1979, to deceive and to beautify the ugly face of a regime built on internal repression and the falsification of facts abroad. That system was exposed in the recent war, due to the continuous erosion of a ruling clique that relies on iron-fisted rule and terrorism.
In a number of media outlets and many Arab channels, and under the guise of freedom of opinion and expression, many of Iran’s media lackeys work to cement the image of the ‘victim’ in people’s consciousness. They are described as ‘analysts,’ whether political or military, and this deception has reached a repulsive level that no young child’s mind would accept.
These individuals relied on an Iranian saying regarding ‘American economic rules and principles in the region.’ On this basis, they constructed numerous statements to mislead, while turning a blind eye to objective political, economic, and even religious doctrinal realities. The regime has worked to implant these realities into minds through paid operatives serving it, both in media and politics.
The first of these facts is that the political, military, and economic alliances between the Arab Gulf states and the West in general, and the United States in particular, are not a product of today, nor are they anomalous in international relations. Nor have they ever been directed against a specific party.
More importantly, Iran’s alliances during the Shah’s era were more deeply rooted with the West. Today, the regime’s alliances with major global powers are strategic, and cooperation in the military field is known to all.
Secondly, the regional arms built by the regime are based on sectarian doctrines, aiming to generalize terrorism as a tool to impose its model on the region. We will not repeat what those gangs, and even the regime itself, did in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen, nor the terrorist operations in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and other countries.
Consequently, the refrain that “Iranian airstrikes target US bases in the region” is not based on thin air. Here, it is necessary to recall the media landscape when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. It was the same system that propagated the saying that “the road to Jerusalem passes through Kuwait,” while any rational person understands that this heinous crime was a blow to Arab solidarity and a dismantling of national security; in fact, it aided Israel more.
The concept of “opinion and counter-opinion” has allowed many opportunists to contribute their share of Iranian lies to mislead public opinion. We will not delve into names to avoid turning them into heroes, when they are merely empty drums beaten by Tehran to create noise and divert attention from the facts witnessed by Iranian media, not Arab channels.
Indeed, these individuals use provocative language and sometimes attempt deception to gain their “share,” which is the most dangerous act committed by Arab media. Foreign channels, however, do not rely on such segments. Instead, they employ analysts who do not mislead public opinion in their own countries, because speech entails responsibility, not random guessing.
In several interviews, one such figure vomited a great deal of media bile against Kuwait, the Kingdom of Bahrain, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. He did not rely on a single fact, but merely labeled these countries as “orbiting the Zionist-American sphere,” while simultaneously glorifying the Iranian-Russian-Chinese alliance and the terrorist use of Arab sectarian gangs. He forgot about the temporary alliance between Tehran and Washington to invade Baghdad in 2003, and how the United States allowed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to seize control of Iraq’s decisions for more than 20 years.”
These individuals, labeled “policy experts,” are in reality nothing more than drums beating to cover up Iranian terrorism; they are, therefore, “Trojan horses,” and their employment only further misleads public opinion—a public already sufficiently deceived over eight decades of fabricated narratives, whether concerning the Palestinian cause, the invasion of Kuwait, the Lebanese civil war, or what was termed the “Arab Spring,” which was a diabolical plot to dismantle the Arab world.
Thus, we reiterate: “Not all that glitters in the media is gold.”
