Tel Aviv has once again reconfigured its propaganda focus around the \u201cIran threat.\u201d This time, however, not the nuclear file but Iran\u2019s missile and drone capabilities have become the central focus of the narrative war.<\/p>\r\n
Tehran-IranView24<\/strong> Tel Aviv has once again reconfigured its propaganda focus around the \u201cIran threat.\u201d This time, however, not the nuclear file but Iran\u2019s missile and drone capabilities have become the central focus of the narrative war. Tehran-IranView24 In the official narrative of the Zionist regime, the main axis of political pressure and psychological warfare against Iran […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":2989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,68,85,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis-and-notes","category-analytical-news-report","category-full-front-page","category-the-most-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2981"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2990,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions\/2990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
In the official narrative of the Zionist regime, the main axis of political pressure and psychological warfare against Iran has always rested on a fixed claim: that Tehran is approaching the \u201cthreshold of acquiring nuclear weapons.\u201d For more than two decades, this claim has been frequently repeated and has become part of the standard security lexicon of Israel and its allies\u2014without its legal, technical, and temporal foundations ever being seriously verified. Nevertheless, the summer 1404 war marked a turning point in the effectiveness of this narrative.
After the summer 1404 war (June 2025), at a time when the Zionist regime has faced an unprecedented accumulation of political, legal, and public-opinion pressures domestically and internationally, Tel Aviv has systematically reoriented its propaganda and discourse once again around the \u201cIran threat.\u201d This time, however, unlike previous periods when Iran\u2019s nuclear program was at the center of psychological warfare, Iran\u2019s missile and drone programs have been highlighted as the main axis of a new security narrative.
In recent weeks, Zionist officials and sources, by repeating familiar claims about Iran\u2019s \u201cproximity to the threshold of strategic weaponry,\u201d have sought to define a new perceptual framework against Iran\u2014one aimed at shifting attention away from the legal and humanitarian consequences of Israel\u2019s crimes in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria, as well as the recent war with Iran, toward reproducing a structural and long-term threat in the minds of Western public opinion. In this new narrative construction, Iran\u2019s missile program is portrayed not as a component of defensive deterrence, but as a \u201cregional destabilizing threat.\u201d
Under these conditions, the shift in propaganda focus from the nuclear program to Iran\u2019s missile and drone programs is less an accidental change than a calculated response to new battlefield realities. During the recent imposed war\u2014which included direct attacks on some of Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities\u2014not only did the claim of \u201cparalyzing Iran\u2019s strategic capabilities\u201d fail to materialize, but Tehran\u2019s retaliatory response, particularly in the missile domain, practically demonstrated the effectiveness and precision of Iran\u2019s indigenous systems in striking specific targets deep inside the occupied territories. This field development, resulting in the American-Zionist aggressor axis to request an immediate ceasefire, also altered the equation of the narrative war.
From a perceptual standpoint, the recent war familiarized segments of global public opinion\u2014especially at elite and military levels\u2014with the reality of Iran\u2019s missile and drone capabilities not as a propaganda claim, but as a genuine component of deterrence. This has simultaneously strengthened and complicated Israel\u2019s efforts to depict these capabilities as an \u201cuncontrollable threat\u201d: strengthened because tangible evidence exists, and complicated because that same evidence, and the deterrent and defensive function of this capability have enhanced the legitimacy of Iran\u2019s conventional weapons program simultaneously.
Within this framework, after the recent war, negative propaganda against Iran\u2019s missile and drone programs has expanded with greater speed and intensity than before. The fundamental difference between this phase and the nuclear file is that this time\u2014unlike theoretical and unverifiable claims about Iran\u2019s intent to build atomic weapons\u2014field and operational evidence proving missile power is available.
Yet this very reality on the ground has created a new paradox in Western and Zionist narratives: on the one hand, Iran\u2019s drone capability is presented as a destabilizing factor; on the other, numerous reports from Western\u2014especially U.S.\u2014military and industrial circles have emerged about studying, modeling, or utilizing the industrial and operational patterns of Iranian drones.
This duality reflects a growing gap between the official security narrative and technical\u2013operational assessments. At the level of political narrative, the persistent emphasis on the \u201cIran threat\u201d serves as a tool for managing international pressure on the Zionist regime, diverting public attention from the legal consequences of recent wars, and justifying the continuation of Israel\u2019s unconventional military superiority. At the technical and strategic level, however, Iran\u2019s missile and drone capabilities\u2014as undeniable realities\u2014are directly influencing the security and military calculations of major and regional actors.
Overall, the intensified Israeli propaganda focus on Iran\u2019s missile and drone programs after the summer 1404 war should be seen as part of a broader strategy of \u201credefining the threat\u201d\u2014a strategy aimed at compensating for the erosion of international legitimacy, diverting public opinion from the humanitarian and legal consequences of the recent war, and reconstructing a framework of psychological deterrence against Iran. Nonetheless, the continuation of this strategy faces a structural challenge: the more tangible evidence of the effectiveness of Iran\u2019s conventional deterrence increases, the deeper the gap and contradiction will become between the international treatment of Iran\u2019s defensive capabilities and the overlooking of Israel\u2019s unconventional offensive capabilities.
This is while, in the region\u2019s strategic reality, the only actor that persistently remains outside all nuclear, chemical, and biological verification regimes\u2014and simultaneously enjoys the advantage of asymmetric deterrence\u2014is the Zionist regime of Israel; a regime with a dark record of widespread human rights violations and the commission of organized crimes, from occupied Palestine to other regional fronts.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"