Abbas Abdi’s View on Jihad of Explanation: With This Broadcasting Organization, Explanation is Not Possible
In an editorial for the Etemad newspaper, Abbas Abdi has addressed the topic of the Jihad of Explanation.
He writes: The leadership has said, ‘I have repeated it many times and will continue to repeat it: the enemy’s main strategy is propaganda, as they themselves call it. The remedy for propaganda is explanation.’
What can counteract the temptation that affects young people, from different languages, from different voices, with different expressions and innovations? A baton cannot counteract that temptation; explanation can.
As an external observer regarding the protests, I say that both sides more or less use propaganda tools. However, for obvious reasons, the protesters’ propaganda power is greater.
Especially considering that the government’s official propaganda tool, namely the broadcasting organization, is very ineffective and dysfunctional. It is so ineffective that it has resorted to using city billboards to advertise its own films.
Therefore, the most important tool for the government to advertise against the protesters has already been rendered ineffective.
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