SCFR Online – Opinion: The expansion of artificial intelligence and influence operations has drawn the field of conflict from physical space to the perceptual and algorithmic environment and has turned cognitive deterrence into a strategic necessity.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: A media expert stated: Given the intensification of the West’s soft war and psychological operations against Iran, our country’s primary strategy must be based on public education, strengthening national cohesion, developing international media, and countering the distortion of history through creating the right narrative.
Strategic Council Online – Interview: Explaining the most important aspects of the US soft war against Russia, an analyst of Russia affairs said: US attempt to attract Russia’s elite has long-term goals and prospects, and in the long run will certainly weaken Moscow’s technical and scientific capabilities.
Strategic Council Online—Opinion: In an interview with the Times magazine, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett claimed that his model of confrontation with Iran is a Star Wars plan during Ronald Reagan’s presidency in the 1980s, but that the possibility of implementing this imitated model is a matter for discussion.
Tahmoores Gholami—Expert of international relations
Strategic Council Online—Editorial: In recent years, Americans have devised and enforced numerous programs and measures to expand and deepen their “software influence” in Iraq. That the US government, in the new round of “security talks” with Baghdad last summer, raised cultural and educational issues and topics related to the youth and families, and describe them as one of the key security talks with Iraq, suggests that the US administration is expanding its “soft and cultural influence” in Iraq in parallel with reducing or managing its military and hardware presence.
Hamid Khoshayand—International affairs analyst