Abstract

Iran’s Information Warfare has become more pervasive and complex in recent decades. It is a combination of strategies that include controlling the digital space, media, and diaspora to conduct influence operations for manipulating the global narrative and limiting information flow. The Iranian government has been investing heavily both domestically and internationally in sophisticated methods and tools of conducting Information warfare Inspired by the political ideology of the state, particularly the concept of ,victory through fear’, the government has institutionally used human emotions as a strategy of deterrence in its information war against the political dissidents inside and outside of the country. This article analyses multi-layered strategies of Iran’s information warfare, which are pursued in the international environment.