Iran's Decade of Soft War: Dissidents, Trolls, and Khamenei
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Claims that Iran runs coordinated Persian‑language influence campaigns backed by partial state endorsement, with heavy automation + state endorsement signals and a surprising platform choice: Instagram focus: unblocked, dominant in Iran. Empirical sets show coherent networks that follow the Supreme Leader, produce fabricated protest narratives, impersonate Iranians to push sanctions, and use coordinated flagging and harassment networks to silence critics; many operations originate from abroad as adversaries mirror and adapt the same tools.
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