The Deputy Head of the IRGC Intelligence Organization says media is the frontline of the system.
Mehdi Sayyari states that the enemy’s strategy is to create problems for the country and stir up waves with the aim of destabilization. Media is the frontline of the revolution and the system.
The enemy has launched a media war against us, and we are victorious in every war today. We must also address the shortcomings in the field of media warfare.
A sanctions expert at the U.S. State Department stated in the 1989 Hamburg conference that the social resilience of the Iranian people is undeniable, and the only way to separate the Iranian people is through media warfare and cultural work. By the end of the 1990s, we witnessed our own newspapers insulting our sacred values, leading to the 1999 unrest.
The Supreme Leader has stated that we are engaged in economic, psychological, and security warfare with the enemy, and the outcome of media warfare turns into actual warfare.