{"id":340419,"date":"2025-12-12T15:36:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=340419"},"modified":"2025-12-12T15:36:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:36:55","slug":"khameneis-insistence-on-a-propaganda-war-exposes-that-his-battlefield-is-inside-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/society\/khameneis-insistence-on-a-propaganda-war-exposes-that-his-battlefield-is-inside-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Khamenei\u2019s Insistence on A \u201cPropaganda War\u201d Exposes That His Battlefield Is Inside Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_340421\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-340421\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-340421 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/iran-ali-khamenei-meets-state-euologists-11122025.jpg\" alt=\"Iranian regime's supreme leader Ali Khamenei meets state-affiliated euologists on December 11, 2025\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/iran-ali-khamenei-meets-state-euologists-11122025.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/iran-ali-khamenei-meets-state-euologists-11122025-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/iran-ali-khamenei-meets-state-euologists-11122025-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/iran-ali-khamenei-meets-state-euologists-11122025-746x420.jpg 746w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/iran-ali-khamenei-meets-state-euologists-11122025-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/iran-ali-khamenei-meets-state-euologists-11122025-696x392.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-340421\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iranian regime&#8217;s supreme leader Ali Khamenei meets state-affiliated euologists on December 11, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong style=\"color: #222222; font-size: 15px;\"><em>Three-minute read<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Iranian regime\u2019s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, used a three-hour, state-staged religious celebration on Thursday to argue that the decisive front facing Iran is not a renewed battlefield clash, but a struggle to control what Iranians believe about their country, their identity, and the clerical dictatorship\u2019s legitimacy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking to a handpicked audience of pro-government religious eulogists\u2014figures the state routinely uses to mobilize crowds and transmit political messaging\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/farsi.khamenei.ir\/news-content?id=62051\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Khamenei said<\/a> Iran is now \u201cbeyond the military clashes\u201d and instead \u201cat the center of a propaganda and media war\u201d waged by what he described as a \u201cbroad front\u201d led by the United States. In his framing, Washington is \u201cat the center\u201d of this front, with some European countries around it and exiled opponents\u2014whom he labeled \u201cmercenaries,\u201d \u201ctraitors,\u201d and \u201cstateless\u201d people\u2014on the periphery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The speech combined three politically significant moves: a rare, explicit acknowledgment of pervasive domestic hardship; a warning against public discussion of renewed military conflict; and a directive to loyalist religious networks to adopt an \u201coffensive\u201d posture in an information struggle aimed at \u201cminds, hearts and beliefs.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Khamenei\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Hijab?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Hijab<\/a> Speech Reveals a Regime Trapped Between Its Base and an Unruly Society\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VqEVzdtAY3\">https:\/\/t.co\/VqEVzdtAY3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1996678229353287974?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 4, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Acknowledging shortages\u2014while minimizing what they mean<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Khamenei acknowledged that \u201cshortages and problems across the country are many,\u201d but insisted Iran remains on a forward path. He referred to a chronic environmental and public-health problem\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/article\/how-the-irgcs-industrial-mafia-engineered-irans-pollution-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dust storms<\/a> in the southwestern province of Khuzestan\u2014only to downplay it, calling it among the \u201csmallest\u201d of the country\u2019s problems and adding that larger shortages exist elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The juxtaposition mattered: he conceded the breadth of hardship while refusing to treat any particular crisis as a failure of governance requiring accountability. Instead, he recast the country\u2019s condition as proof of national endurance, praising what he described as the public\u2019s steadfastness, sincerity, goodwill, and pursuit of justice\u2014virtues he said build \u201chonor and power\u201d for \u201cIslam and Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Khamenei\u2019s Defiant Speech Exposes a Regime Gripped by Fear, Denial, and Collapse<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WJhzuX2RlK\">https:\/\/t.co\/WJhzuX2RlK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1980376946661019836?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reframing the risk of war as a tool of psychological pressure<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Khamenei also warned against repeated speculation about renewed fighting to reassure his demoralized base. \u201cSome repeatedly raise the possibility of a repeat military clash,\u201d he said, while others \u201cdeliberately fan\u201d the topic to keep people anxious and doubtful. He predicted they would not succeed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A major theme was identity. Khamenei used reverse language to warn against the truth overcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/iran-fears-gen-z-why-the-regime-is-ratcheting-up-propaganda-graves-clearing-and-intimidation\/\">decades of state propaganda<\/a>, claiming \u201cthe enemy aims to make people gradually forget the revolution, its goals, and the legacy of its founding leader.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He portrayed the campaign as well-resourced and culturally sophisticated, claiming \u201cbillions\u201d are spent on persuading young Iranians and naming writers, artists, and \u201cHollywood\u201d as instruments of influence.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Khamenei?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Khamenei<\/a>\u2019s July 29 Speech: A Choreographed Display of Power, Concealing the Ruin<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EZw9uEp9JM\">https:\/\/t.co\/EZw9uEp9JM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1950469345374867805?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 30, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Orders to build an \u201cinformation front\u201d and go on the attack<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Khamenei\u2019s operational guidance was unusually explicit. He instructed the eulogists and religious gatherings around them to function as a national infrastructure for ideological transmission\u2014what he called a \u201cbase\u201d for building and spreading the \u201cliterature of resistance.\u201d Without a sustaining \u201cliterature,\u201d he said, any idea dies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He urged his audience to mirror military planning in the information domain: just as Iran would arrange its forces in response to a military threat, he said, it must adopt the correct \u201carrangement\u201d in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/irans-regime-escalates-threats-and-propaganda-toward-the-international-community\/\">propaganda and media confrontation<\/a>\u2014focusing on \u201cIslamic, Shiite and revolutionary teachings\u201d that he claimed are the enemy\u2019s primary targets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also warned against a merely defensive approach. \u201cDo not suffice with defending\u201d against what the adversary casts as doubts, he said. \u201cThe enemy has many weak points\u2014target them and attack them.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Khamenei Rejects U.S. Overtures, Says Conflict with U.S. Is Permanent<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/93WEuazTdr\">https:\/\/t.co\/93WEuazTdr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1985413164280791163?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Institutionalizing narrative control<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Khamenei\u2019s December 11 messaging helps explain why he now frames the main confrontation as cognitive and informational: after decades and billions spent on propaganda, the clerical dictatorship is acting like a system that knows it is losing the war against the truth. His admission of widespread shortages\u2014paired with instructions to mobilize loyalist networks for an \u201coffensive\u201d media fight\u2014signals growing anxiety that the roots of today\u2019s crises in Iran could again propel the country toward a state-wide revolt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That shift is visible in the institutionalization of narrative control through \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.abna24.com\/news\/1716244\/Iranian-Seminary-official-Arbaeen-spirit-fuels-resistance-to\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Balagh Mobin<\/a>,\u201d described as a \u201chybrid war\u201d headquarters involving more than 40,000 clerics and seminarians. Its purpose is not conventional public relations but organized perception management: countering fear and doubt and recasting social and political dissent as an externally orchestrated security operation designed to weaken the clerical dictatorship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These efforts demonstrate the failure of earlier messaging campaigns, notably \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/english.khamenei.ir\/news\/8838\/The-most-important-struggle-today-is-that-of-clarification\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jihad of clarification<\/a>,\u201d to prevent the eruption of the 2022 uprising. The conclusion is blunt: faced with a public that increasingly sees through deception, the clerical dictatorship is doubling down\u2014building \u201cheadquarters,\u201d expanding clerical networks, and declaring an explicit war on awareness itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three-minute read The Iranian regime&rsquo;s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, used a three-hour, state-staged religious celebration on Thursday to argue that the decisive front facing Iran is not a renewed battlefield [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":340421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5480],"class_list":{"0":"post-340419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-society","8":"tag-ali-khamenei"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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