DM: West Seeking to Preoccupy World Public Opinion

Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi cautioned that the West is seeking to preoccupy the thoughts of the world nations through complicated public relations techniques in a move to dominate the world.
“Today the West is utilizing complicated public relations techniques in a bid to conquer the public opinion, that is the thought, the will and the behavior of the nations,” Vahidi said addressing a meeting of Defense Ministry PR officials.

He further said that the western awe was shattered by the 1979 Islamic Revolution of Iran, and the western powers were obliged to devise a new set of strategies, specially now that they find their soft power inferior to that of Iran.

Political analysts say the fact that people of the region are pursuing the same causes pursued by the Islamic Republic reveals that the Islamic Republic’s soft power has overpowered enemies’ military capability in the region.

“Although warplanes, missiles, bombers and warships determine the fate of the battlefield, the Islamic Republic of Iran has presented a type of spiritual might which has overpowered the enemies’ military power,” Iranian Vice-President for Parliamentary Affairs Seyed Mohammad Reza Mir-Tajeddini said last Tuesday .

He stressed that this spiritual might of the Islamic Republic of Iran stands above all military and war capabilities and powers.

The official further pointed to Islamic awakening, resistance and sacrifice, unity and solidarity, religious leadership, quest for honor and independence, campaign against tyrants and arrogant powers and quest for justice and Islam as among the main features and constituents of Iran’s might and power, and said people in the region are in a quest for the same features as well.

In recent months, a wave of revolutions and anti-government uprisings has been sweeping the Arab world.

In January, a revolution in Tunisia ended the 23-year ruling of former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

In February, another Arab revolution led to the ouster of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak after three decades of his authoritarian rule.

Since then, other revolutions have swept Libya, Yemen and Bahrain, while other anti-government unrests are erupting in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Oman, Kuwait and Algeria.