U.S Cyber Diplomacy Influence on Viewpoint of Iranian Users of Cyberspace(Case Study: Radio Farda Website)

The subject of this article is “U.S Cyber Diplomacy Influence on Viewpoint of Iranian Users of Cyberspace (Case Study: Radio Farda Website)”.The U.S government has tried to implement various cultural, social and educational programs to convince people about its foreign policy goals, and it became known as public diplomacy. Considering Iran’s high stance in U.S foreign policy, its Department of State launched various cyber diplomacy projects including Radio Farda website to influence Iranians.The key question of this article is: What is the Influence of Radio Farda website, on Viewpoint of Iranian Users of Cyberspace? For this purpose, qualitative content analysis of Radio Farda website and sending questionnaires has been used. The hypothesis is that, comparing to Iranian Internet users who do not read Radio Farda website content, the Radio Farda website users are more influenced by cyber diplomacy content and messages and this leads to negative attitude towards Iranian society.