جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « revolution » در نشریات گروه « روابط عمومی، ارتباطات، رسانه »

Transferring the message of the Islamic revolution to other countries, has always been one of the primary principles of the revolution In Imam Khomeini’s (PBUH) thoughts. This issue began by Imam Khomeini’s letter to Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union. According to Imam Khomeini’ thoughts, the revolution and the performance of the Islamic Republic regime is one way to introduce the message of the revolution to the people of the world. Several institutions and organizations are trying to put into practice Imam Khomeini’s thought including IRGC, Office of Religions Approaching, Foreign Affairs Department, Association of Islamic Awakening, Construction Basij, etc. Strategic deepness of the Islamic Republic of Iran is increasing every day and its message is being heard not only in the region but also in North Africa, Europe and even in America. This paper, firstly, tries to introduce different courses of action to increase this strategic deepness in the region as well as in the world and secondly to integrate those in charge of this mission through IRGC. Considering pre-revolution political and historical events, this paper is going to show the origin of this discourse and then presents general courses of action defining the discourse and its aim.

Terrorism is one of the significant problems of the present-day society. Terror isan organized, group act beyond which there is a political strategy. Exploiting the concept of ‘psychological terrorism’, this research addresses the notion that terrorists’ carrying out destructive or consolidating psychological operations is directly related to terrorist targets and expansion of ‘psychological insecurity’ in society. Considering the allegations leveled against Iran, the present study addresses this question: What are the facets of the terror-oriented psychological operations of the West countries against Iran and why is the Islamic Republic of Iran called a terrorist state? Reviewing historical events and utilizing the library study method, this research work came up with the definite finding that the Western countries’ aim in conducting terror-oriented psychological operations against the Islamic Republic of Iran is to impact on the world public opinion, overshadow Iran's influence in the world and eventually isolate Iran.

Since the late 2010, some movements have arisen in North Africa and the Arab world. In some counties such as Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Libya, these movements have led to revolutions and in some others like Bahrain and Saudi Arabia they are still going on. This issue has drawn the attention of many experts and analysts inside and outside the region. Specialists have mentioned various causal factors for these domino-like developments including the role of modern media, nations’ movement towards the globalization process,; the existing social and class gaps in Arabic countries, dictatorship and authoritarianism ruling over the Arab world, the beginning of Arabs’ seeking democracy, the rise of the wave of Islamic awakening due to people’s dissatisfaction with the marginalization of religion, violation of their religious rights by the rulers and dysfunctional political systems. What these movements have in common is the role that modern electronic media, i.e. satellites and electronic virtual environments such as social networks, cell phone messages,. .. , have played in their inception. Though the media may not be considered the main cause of a revolution, they have been mentioned as one of the important factors affecting the occurrence of these revolutions. The role these media played in informing and organizing people was so influential that titles such as media revolution, laptop revolution, Facebook revolution and Twitter revolution,. .. are used to refer to some of these revolutions. Surveying some of these revolutions, this paper attempts to examine the role modern media played in their inception.

This paper intends to look into the unrests and protests in Yemen in the first half of 2011, which were formed in line with the modern Arabic revolutions in the region. To gain an accurate understanding of the developments in Yemen, first, the socio-political structure of this country will be introduced, so that the reader can easily put things into perspective. Then, following a discussion on the background of these protests, the roots of people’s dissatisfaction with Ali Abdollah Saleh’s regime, which was manifested in the recent protests, will be dealt with. The cause of the prolongation of the protests and people’s failure to overthrow Saleh rapidly is another issue in explaining which factors such as differences of perspectives, the practices of the opposition forces, and the role of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Persian Gulf, particularly Saudi Arabia as well as the U.S. concern over the Islamists’ gaining power will be considered.

Following the victory of the Islamic Revolution, the world of arrogance, which had suddenly been faced with a novel and unprecedented discourse, resorted, in vein, to a variety of strategies in order to block its ongoing movement. Supporting the domestic unsuccessful groups, such as the Monafeqin and the liberals, in order to make the revolution deviate from its course didn’t bear any fruit. The coup plot and local riots failed as well. Then, benefiting from international support, they imposed the longest war of the twentieth century on Iran. However, at the end of this hard war, the Islamic Revolution became stronger and they concluded that hard confrontation models could no more bring damage on it. Then, they decided to rely on soft strategies for confrontation. The supreme leader has been notifying the danger of this new type of war using such terms as ‘cultural attack’, ‘cultural assault’, ‘cultural NATO’, ‘soft war’, etc. since a long time ago. Relying on the guiding remarks of the supreme leader, the Grand Ayatollah Khamenei, this article intends to delineate how the enemies’ hard war gave way to soft war. An attempt has been made here to utilize the native models of the concepts in question and, as far as possible, avoid referring to other sources.