State Propaganda: A Blunt Knife? | TehranReview
The political discourse of the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran has always been full of bluffs, threats and provocative language. Without real and effective diplomacy and active relationships, this kind of language and the conduct of state officials has often been used as a tool of foreign policy. The continuous denial of the Holocaust and the threats to the West are part of the propaganda. Iran has used such threats as a tool of political immunity and for the accomplishment of its objectives in the Middle East. When there is less real diplomacy, it is more bitter propaganda.Precisely because of this lack of diplomatic relations, no country is no longer under siege in the Islamic regime's propaganda that America.
In the long term, however, the propaganda can not be an alternative to diplomacy. State propaganda is usually an addendum to diplomacy rather than principle. The real deciding factor in relations between states has always been diplomacy, not the kind of propaganda of a country uses to influence and mobilize the public. Iran's relations with Russia and China are an example.Neither of these countries have any real propaganda for Iran. The young Iranians have always favored Western Russia and China, but the profound relation between Iran and these countries argued their interests together. On the other hand, the Islamic regime's propaganda against the United States was not effective at national level: the Iranians have often said that most "Americaphile" of all the nations of the Middle East after Israel.
Public Diplomacy: an old "new"
At a meeting with Iranian diplomats, March 3, 2010, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei spoke of "forceful diplomacy" and added: "Public diplomacy is new to the Islamic Republic and should be better recognized." Diplomacy public "instead of" state propaganda "is a term that has been adopted by some politicians in Iran and institutes affiliated to the government. As the term has come to be used more often, there was also the statement that "public diplomacy" has been one of the inventions of the Ayatollah Khomeini.Hazrat Hamid, an adviser to President Ahmadinejad in the affairs of the United States, said: "Our best diplomats, who have excelled in public diplomacy, is the supreme leader and the President.''He added that" Western diplomacy is still the Cold War. "This is not really clear that someone like Mr. Hazrat, who thinks" public diplomacy "is one of the inventions of Ayatollah Khomeini, understands the concept. However, it is very unlikely that those who make such claims about the origins of the term are not aware of its American origins in the 1960s - years before the Islamic revolution....
World Indoor Championships history at a glance - highlights of the women's In the days before we realised how disadvantageous inner lanes were, she won it from lane four having sliced through the field like a knife through butter. It was the first of three world indoor golds for Ottey, but she is well behind the record total
