Karen E. Young | Internationale Politik
Economic diversification has been a goal of all six Gulf Cooperation Council states for over a decade. The realization that the state can’t do everything is now central to government efforts at fiscal consolidation and planning for the future. But the old ways are not entirely in the past.
Firas Elias writes: The powerful interconnections between Iran’s different media and intelligence agencies has been weaponized by the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei who is engaged in an ongoing publicity war with the outside world: the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance provides the lexicon for speeches and revolutionary discourse, then the media disseminates this material in the form of news and media content, and finally, the Ministry of Intelligence mobilizes the material and social resources in order to bring this effort full circle. – Washington Institute