Regime Revisionism: Tehran's War Before the Iran War (feat. Jay Solomon & Negar Mojtahedi)

Regime Revisionism: Tehran's War Before the Iran War (feat. Jay Solomon & Negar Mojtahedi)

Author: FDD April 9, 2026 Duration: 55:03

Back in January, the regime carried out the deadliest crackdown in modern Iranian history.

As it gunned down protesters in the streets, it launched a parallel war online. A coordinated campaign to turn a domestic uprising into a so-called CIA–Mossad plot — rewriting the story in real time and pushing that narrative deep into Western discourse.

The January crackdown and the narrative battle that accompanied it aren’t isolated incidents. They set conditions for the war that followed, shaping global perception before a single American fighter jet took flight.

So, was all of this just another page from the regime’s standard propaganda playbook? Or is information warfare now a core pillar of its survival?


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