False flags, psychological warfare: How Iran’s regime deceived the world for 47 years - opinion

[rangerrebew]

False flags, psychological warfare: How Iran’s regime deceived the world for 47 years - opinion
This is a cult-like regime that feeds on grievance, fear, and deception. It is, in essence, a death cult, one that glorifies death and martyrdom while devaluing life itself.
 
 
ByRAYAN AMIRI
MARCH 26, 2026 19:30

The Islamist regime in Iran is notorious for staging false-flag operations, blaming its opponents in order to present itself as the victim and deceive the public. Although this terrorist and totalitarian theocracy has suffered numerous losses in battles, and has repeatedly shown that it is not a formidable military power, it has wielded one highly effective weapon for 47 years: psychological warfare and propaganda.

This is a cult-like regime that feeds on grievance, fear, and deception. It is, in essence, a death cult, one that glorifies death and martyrdom while devaluing life itself. In such a system, dying for the regime is sanctified, and martyrdom is elevated as an ideal.

This comes naturally for a regime like this, which uses psychological operations and false-flag attacks to manufacture fear, invent enemies, and rally people around itself. It is motivated to target Iranian civilians in schools and hospitals in false-flag operations to create fear and blame its opponents.
 
When propaganda turns against its creators

https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-891133

[Fishrrman]

"How Iran’s regime deceived the world for 47 years - opinion"

Fishrrman's "opinion":
iran will go right on "deceiving" after any "negotiated" agreement.

It will make no difference how much of their military infrastructure has been destroyed.
They'll just clean up the mess and start over. Didn't they already do that with some of their nuclear weapons production after it had been attacked last summer?

There's only one way to guarantee that iran will not repeat its past behavior:
Go in there physically, ensure that the old regime is "removed", put a new regime into place, discover and dismantle the nuclear sites and missile prodution/launching sites, secure the Straits of Hormuz, and take control over Kharg Island as "collateral".

Anything else, and it will just be...
"...taquiyya all over again."

Sorry if you don't like this reply.

[jmyrlefuller]

There's only one way to guarantee that iran will not repeat its past behavior:
Go in there physically, ensure that the old regime is "removed", put a new regime into place, discover and dismantle the nuclear sites and missile prodution/launching sites, secure the Straits of Hormuz, and take control over Kharg Island as "collateral".

Anything else, and it will just be...
"...taquiyya all over again."

Sorry if you don't like this reply.

The United States does not have the manpower to install and maintain a regime via a land war. Attempting to "go in there physically" with the Iranian topography being the way it is is doomed to fail. Did we not learn from Afghanistan or the much easier Iraq?

Nuclear annihilation is the only means we have to handle troublesome regimes. But that leaves way too much collateral damage.