Googling their website, I read that it’s “the leading Spanish language news agency and the fourth largest news agency in the world” and has been around for more than 60yrs.
does that help at all? ;~ )
“Over 1,200 reporters in about 30 countries around the globe work for IRNA and disseminate their news in different languages such as English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Chinese and Russian, Fayyazi said.”
The above is very telling even if 50% true.
There is no doubt that many & many people particularly in the Arab/muslim world completely believe what IR’s propaganda machine disseminates. Mullahs are much more popular in the Muslim and Arab world than in Iran, even if the majority of the Muslim countries are Sunnis. They see anything negative about Iran as propaganda by the West, even if told by Iranians!
Mullahs and people like Ahmadinejad are perceived to represent “Islam”; besides, they are perceived to be standing up to a superpower, when these same Muslims and Arabs see their own pro-west governments as puppets of the West and tyrants.
Unfortunately, we don’t seem to have a counter-strategy, and it is mostly about perceptions in the Arab-Muslim world.
It is quite frightening.
No.
Next question. :-)