LEGO – Style Revolution: How Iran Broke Out of an Information Blockade

Despite US efforts to suppress Iranian perspectives since 2021, Iran has challenged Washington’s information blockade by using innovative communication tactics to present its narrative worldwide during the ongoing conflict.

Washington’s Policy: Bombing, Insulting, and Threatening

On Traditionally Biased Western Media

Parties in Iran, including Explosive Media, foreign affairs minister Abass Aragchi, Professor Mohammad Marandi, and foreign missions, have articulated the country’s position in a style that has attracted the Western audience’s attention, breaking the information blockade imposed on Iran. In the past, nations facing Washington’s pressure encountered an insurmountable hurdle of presenting their point of view to the world or pushing back against US accusations. However, this reality may change henceforth. This problem was not only faced by small countries but also powerful ones, as recognized by Russian President Vladimir Putin in his interview with Tucker Carlson in February 2024. The Russian president noted how some countries have had to respond to absurd positions held by some Western leaders, since they lacked avenues of presenting alternatives, as they were smothered by the massive US media. While Russia or China had the wherewithal to respond, smaller countries could only endure being strangled by the West after being falsely accused of harming their own citizens, supporting terrorists, or possessing weapons of mass destruction. For instance, when President George W. Bush declared that Iraq, Iran, and North Korea were the new ‘axis of evil,’ the Western media and its........

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