Leader Urges Media Shift Against Enemy’s Hearts-and-Minds Offensive
Leader the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has emphasized the necessity to adopt proper defensive and offensive arrangement against the enemy’s propaganda and media attacking minds, hearts, and beliefs.
He made the remarks in a three-hour meeting with eulogists of Ahl al-Bayt (AS) held on the occasion of Lady Fatemeh’s birthday anniversary in the Imam Khomeini Hussainiya, southern Tehran, on Thursday.
Ayatollah Khamenei defined national resistance as endurance and steadfastness against all forms of pressure from hegemonic powers, including military, economic, cultural, media, or political pressures.
He pointed to Western media hype and political-military propaganda as examples of enemy pressure, saying their goals range from territorial expansion, such as now seen in the US’s actions in Latin America, to control of underground resources, lifestyle changes, and most importantly, identity transformation.
Recalling that global powers have been struggling for over a century to change “Iran’s religious, historical, and cultural identity”, he noted that the Islamic Revolution nullified those efforts, and in recent decades, the Iranian nation has continued to resist and frustrate its enemies.
Ayatollah Khamenei also highlighted the spread of the concept and literature of resistance from Iran to the region and beyond as a reality, adding that certain measures inflicted on Iran by the enemy could have crushed any other nation.
The Leader stressed that today Iran faces not only military confrontation but is at the center of a vast propaganda and media war. “The enemy has realized that this divine and spiritual land cannot be subdued through military pressure.”
He warned against those who deliberately raise the possibility of renewed military conflict to instill doubt and fear, assuring that such efforts will fail.
He identified the enemy’s ultimate goal as “erasing the legacy, objectives, and teachings of the [Islamic] Revolution and cosigning Imam Khomeini to oblivion”, adding that the US is at the center of this active front, with some European countries around it, and traitors and opportunists on the margins of the front.
At the beginning of the meeting, eleven eulogists of the Ahl al-Bayt recited poetry and praises.
