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The anti-Iranian coalition has to be integrated, which
requires serious grounds for this. The Persian Gulf’s anti-
missile shield, in which the political and financial interests
of the elite ruling in Washington, Tel Aviv and the Persian
Gulf states are intertwined, can play the role of the best basis
for their unification.
Iran’s fears are in the sense of excessive and irrational
fears of Iran, especially with the magnitude of the threat of
nuclear deal. Right-wing Ramadan believes that Iran was the
first to appear during the peace talks between Egypt and Israel
in the late seventies and early eighties. To convince its public
opinion that peace is possible with the Arabs, Israel needs an
external threat to replace the threat of Arab countries. The
victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran and the opposition
to Camp David’s peace accord were a golden opportunity for
Israeli states to present a threatening image of Iran.
In other words, Iran’s fear is a strategic project in which
Iran is portrayed as a major threat to the region, as well as
a threat to global peace and security, and it is portrayed as a
disturbing and disruptive player in the international system.
This approach is pursued by the United States and Zionism
with the aim of marginalizing the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Iran fears that Iran is seeking to acquire weapons of
mass destruction, especially nuclear weapons, in order to
defend itself against Israel, which already has access to these
weapons. Meanwhile, Israel is severely threatened by Iran’s
pursuit of nuclear energy and pressured the United States to
stop its nuclear activities as soon as possible. According to a
poll, seventy-one percent of the Israeli people believe that if
the diplomatic efforts to stop Iran’s nuclear activities are to
be effective, America must launch a pre-emptive strike Iran
against. The Israelis have devised numerous plans to attack
Iran’s nuclear facilities and even examined its implications.
Meanwhile, David Menashri, director of the Center for Iranian
Studies at the University of Tel Aviv, acknowledged that Iran
was not a threat to Israel’s existence and survival.
James Bale considers the Iran-Iraq phenomenon to be
the result of Iran’s independence from the United States.
“America is trying to prevent the emergence of regional
independence hegemony,” he says. As their behavior is more
independent, the United States puts more pressure on them.
Also, the more universal the world hegemonic (i.e., the United
States) and the different regional hegemony are the wider
political tensions will emerge between them.
According to this view, the United States is pushing for
a wave of Iran’s fears in the region and the world that Iran is
trying to behave independently of the global hegemony and
its worldview is very different from the global superpower.
In general, Iran’s fears and the psychological warfare of
the Western media against Iran can be summarized in seven
axes: 1. Inducing Iran’s access to nuclear weapons; 2. Iran’s
support for terrorism; 3. Human rights abuses in Iran; The
invasion of Iran’s defense technology; 5. The involvement
of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the affairs of countries; 6.
The Islam city of the political system in Iran; 7. Instigation
of Iran’s opposition to regional peace and stability.
Iran is the only country that, according to the United
States, threatens its interests in the region. From the
perspective of Americans, Iran is seeking to acquire nuclear
weapons. Americans claim that Iran’s reluctance to abandon
its nuclear program has jeopardized its interests in regional
stability, Israeli security and the non-proliferation regime.
Americans believe that Iran’s assistance to Islamist groups
in Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen and Gaza will lead to the spread of
terrorism and instability in the region. Also, Iran’s threat to
close the Strait of Hormuz has added to these tensions. The
United States of Arab and United States in the region claimed
Iran’s support for Shiite groups in these countries, expressing
deep concern about Tehran’s expansionist and hegemonic
tendencies. Analysts say those authoritarian countries in the
region, such as Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Bahrain, crackdown
protest groups and democratic and legitimate demands of their
people on the pretext of engaging in Iran.
From the perspective of the Americans, two threats from
Iran may threaten the interests of this country in Southwest
Asia. First, Iran would face nuclear demands from other
countries, such as Saudi Arabia, in the event of a nuclear
bomb and nuclear capture. Under these conditions, the
freedom of action of the United States and Israel in the multi-
polar nuclear area is facing a lot of restrictions. Secondly, in
the event of an Israeli-American military strike against Iran’s
nuclear facilities to prevent Iranian nuclear and retaliatory
attacks, US interests in the region are falling down at the
stake. Americans claim that Iran, in addition to its nuclear
program, in its asymmetric capabilities in the Persian Gulf,
threatens the obstruction of the Strait of Hormuz, links
to al-Qaeda, political rhetoric on retaliatory and demonic
attacks, the interests of the United States and its allies in
the region risked.
What is called the “Iran of Persecution” is based on
the background of some realities in the region and the
indebtedness and specific representation of some other events,
in the light of which, the cost of power generation in Iran is
increased, so that the transfer of power becomes impossible.
In fact, the type of representations made by Iran by the
Western media is such that by neglecting many of the events
and even their hearts, they generally present a frightening
and threatening portrayal of the various activities and issues
of the country that can be the culmination of this propaganda
and psychological warfare. n
*Author is a Resident Research Fellow at the National
Security and Defense Think Tank and Post-doc Student at
Tehran University. His research interests pertains to Arab-
Israeli studies, the Cyber Security studies and National
Security.
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