The America Media Soft War against the Islamic Republic of Iran and its Confrontation Strategies

At present, the media (satellite, the Internet, television, radio, newspapers, etc.) are utilized as a basic tool to apply pressure and impose the policies of the great powers and a global competition has taken shape in the media battlefield. A major part of delegitimizing operation engineering is media propaganda and psychological operations which leads to the inaction or failure of the opponent without making use of military forces and fire fighting. Media warfare carried out with the aim of soft overthrow seeks to knock down the thought system of the target community so that its thought and cultural foundations may be slackened and the governing political system can be destabilized by propaganda bombardment. The present-day mass media send out subjective and unreal worlds to the people. They do not think of transmitting factual information but rather attempt to fabricate “facts” and represent them. The methods utilized to fulfill this include: creating and reinforcing multiple communication channels, especially in the language of the target country; shifting cultural-political values and ideas toward the global norms; capturing the public opinion in the target country slowly, gradually and continuously and controlling and manipulating it in the short run and running domestic and international media and news debates. Accordingly, reviewing the specific functions of the media in soft war, the present article explores the role and function of Radio Farda, Voice of America and the dependent Persian TV channels in the soft war against the Islamic Republic of Iran.