Social Media

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  • martyred Leader 2026-07-06 20:37

    By Samaneh Aboutalebi

    Millions on the streets, millions online: social media captures Iran's farewell to martyred Leader

    TEHRAN – As millions of mourners poured into the streets of Tehran on Monday to bid farewell to the martyred Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, social media platforms became an equally important arena where images, eyewitness accounts, and competing narratives unfolded in real time.

  • Professor Yu Dal-seung 2026-06-28 20:22

    By Sahar Dadjoo

    Iran war changing public perception shaped by Western media, says S. Korean scholar

    TEHRAN – For more than three decades, Professor Yu Dal-seung has devoted his academic career to studying Iran. As head of the Department of Persian Language and Iranian Studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS), he has introduced generations of South Korean students to Persian language, literature, history, and political thought. Few scholars in South Korea possess a deeper familiarity with Iranian society, and fewer still describe Iran as their "second homeland."

  • Lego-style 2026/05/08

    By Ioana Mate, Middle East analyst and international law attorney

    Iranian psychological warfare on social media and the strategic blindness of the West

    When Lego-style social media videos become a weapon in psychological warfare

    There comes a moment when an analyst must acknowledge that their conceptual tools are no longer sufficient to describe the reality they are observing. The Lego-style animations produced by the Iranian media entity Explosive Media — American warships exploding in colored plastic, Israeli aircraft turned into falling horses, figurine soldiers storming beaches under pixelated flags — represent one of those moments.

  • Social media apps 2025/12/27

    By Fatemeh Kavand

    ‘Regulation for us, freedom for thee’

    How the West weaponizes social media

    Even as a new wave of restrictive regulations on children’s digital access sweeps across Europe and the United States, these very governments—employing a completely different media policy—have simultaneously opened a vast arena of unrestricted social media and satellite broadcasting towards Iran. This meaningful contradiction raises serious questions about soft warfare and cultural engineering.

  • terror online 2025-12-08 14:47

    Masoud Shojai Tabtabai talks about "Terror Online" event

    Masoud Shojai Tabtabai, the secretary of the first International Cartoon and Poster Contest "Terror Online," explained the event's details at a press conference held on Saturday, December 6, in Tehran.

  • Mazandaran hosts Caspian tour operators and influencers to promote Iran’s image 2025-11-19 17:43

    Mazandaran hosts Caspian tour operators and influencers to promote Iran’s image

    TEHRAN – Tourism officials in Mazandaran province hosted tour operators and social media influencers from Russia, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan this week as part of a program aimed at promoting Iran’s image and showcasing the region’s tourism capacity.

  • A view of Vank Cathedral, New Jolfa district, Isfahan, Iran 2025-11-17 17:10

    Armenian Iranologist says media distort image of Iran’s treatment of Armenian heritage

    TEHRAN  – An Armenian expert on Iran said on Sunday that Armenian cultural heritage has been preserved and respected in Iran, but inaccurate media coverage has led to a distorted image of the country.

  • Israel's propaganda 2025/10/08

    By Garsha Vazirian

    You can’t unring the bell: The Israeli offensive that lost its grip

    When genocide went viral and propaganda struggled to hold sway

    TEHRAN — Picture a hush in a room. A nervous voice leans into a mic and admits what everyone has felt: “We have a major, major, major generational problem.” That leaked fragment was less an accusation than a diagnosis: the old pipelines of influence were cracking as short, brutal images poured into young people’s feeds.