{"id":242079,"date":"2021-06-24T03:09:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T08:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=242079"},"modified":"2023-01-30T13:56:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T12:56:18","slug":"iranian-regimes-multi-layered-propaganda-strategy-requires-multi-layered-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iranian-regimes-multi-layered-propaganda-strategy-requires-multi-layered-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Regime\u2019s Multi-Layered Propaganda Strategy Requires Multi-Layered Response"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This week, the US seized a number of websites affiliated with the Iranian regime\u2019s propaganda networks early, prompting Iranian authorities to shift media outlets such as the English-language Press TV to different domain names with Iran-specific extensions.<\/p>\n

According to AP<\/a>, “American authorities seized a range of Iran\u2019s state-linked news website domains they accused of spreading disinformation, the U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday, a move that appeared to be a far-reaching crackdown on Iranian media amid heightened tensions between the two countries.”<\/p>\n

Also, according to British media, the Henry Jackson Society, a London-based Think Tank, published a report last month which details the influence of Iranian fake news networks over British websites and the British public. The report joins various other pieces of evidence for the ongoing proliferation of Iranian government propaganda not just in the United Kingdom but throughout the world. It comes only five months after the United States indicted a Massachusetts political scientist for operating as a paid agent of the Iranian regime for more than 13 years, and four months after a former operative in Iran\u2019s online disinformation campaigns wrote a letter to the United Nations Secretary-General offering to testify on the matter \u201cbefore any court or impartial authority.\u201d
\nCollectively, these examples demonstrate the multi-layered strategy employed by the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and associated institutions in spreading their talking points on a global scale. The potential effectiveness of fake news websites stems from the faux credibility provided to those sites by their association with entities that spread the same or similar talking points through more well-established media.
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Arrested Iranian agent Kaveh Lotfolah Afrasiabi in U.S. is the tip of the iceberg<\/div><\/div>
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