Iran's Frozen Funds in South Korea(Tasnim News)
According to Tasnim News Agency's economic correspondent, Central Bank Governor Mohammad Reza Farzin announced the release of all Iranian foreign currency resources in South Korea last week on his page on the social network, stating The resources will be used in the form of bank payments for the purchase of non-sanctioned goods (
livestock and medicines).
Wrong. In his "Twitter" contribution Farzin of the CBI made strictly no mention whatsoever of livestock nor of medicine. The term "non-sanctioned goods" encompasses far more than those, it should include practically every type of product other than certain military and possibly some nuclear-related items. Furthermore Farzin's message debunked the lie that Iran's recovered funds will be stored by foreign banks, seeing how he made it clear that the money will actually go to Iranian banks.
This was all addressed in minute detail by Prof. Dr. Marandi in his latest interview with Jedaal which I shared here a few days ago, and which every Iranian interested in facts rather than in oppositionist-relayed USA propaganda, should listen to.
Not a new sort of propaganda but something that is slowly rising, posing as "Iranian nationalists" or worse, "Pan-Iranic" (a word that means nothing and has been invented by panturks)
Users condemning US acts of terrorism and propaganda worldwide against Iran, but blames every single thing on Iran, talks only about corruption, bankrupt, some unimportant details, implying there is no way for Iran to continue, but still making in sort they are seen as anti-imperialists, fouling people. This is a vicious one. When Iran continues what is does, then the answer is that Iran is risking a full scale invasion or "airstrikes" from the US, and when Iran slows down, then "Iran is bowing down and has no power". When Iran unveils a new weapon, "It will never be produced", when Iran unveils nothing for a month "Iran is doing nothing bowing down to US demands", when Iran show production lines "We are not seeing them on google earth and twitter"
What you correctly describe falls under the very definition of a propaganda / psy-ops technique known as cognitive infiltration. Cass Sunstein, one of the thinkers behind CIA-sponsored "color revolutions" precisely defined this as part of internet forum subversion tactics. You can find online the piece he authored on the topic.
The infiltrator must always try to pass themself of as being "on the side" of the party they try to subvert. In short, try to appear uber-patriotic but at the same time keep doubting the competence of Iranian decision makers, the Islamic Republic's record etc. And when called into question, invoke the pretense of "constructive criticism".
As I explained earlier though, there's no shortage of oppositionist Iranians with a bizarre tendency of taking pride in the Islamic Republic's long list of achievements, who will unintentionally and naturally mimic the behaviour of trained shills. In the minds of this strange category of individuals, every success recorded by the Islamic Republic is supposedly a legacy of imaginary "nationalist" phantoms, while clerics and pious Moslems in official positions i.e. the people who actually made it all possible are portrayed as having been but an "obstacle" to Iran's development. Then again if there's one activity anti-IR oppositionists excel at, it must be self-delusion. Must admit that observing them dwell in that parallel world of theirs can at times be fascinating.
Another one linked to this we see here with a user that strangely doesn't post anymore, he was at a daily basis posting random things about Ukraine, also some random pictures of NK/China/Russia production lines, for the simple reason of implying NK is doing better than Iran and that Iran produces nothing and is on the verge of collapsing and bankrupt, unlike NK which according to them is in very good shape, not having financial problems and making everything better than Iran, comparing it to Iran.
Why posting random pictures of foreign country production lines and new systems while the subject isn't related on their specifications in this thread or others? This is not random, this is made so users seeing them says to themselves NK is better and produces weapons and everything better than Iran, and also make a senseless comparison between NK and Iran, two different countries that are both impacted by sanctions, with one being the actual obsession from medias and having way more sanctions than the other, and another one having an alliance and military cooperation pact with a neighboring superpower
When it comes to this particular propaganda theme, look no further than to a couple of still active users. The one you're thinking of was randomly sharing DPRK military news indeed, but now two others who forego indirect insinuations to the benefit of outright claims that the DPRK has surpassed Iran in every defence sector. This line was initiated by a user who reappeared some months ago under a new handle, and (unsurprisingly) quickly turned into one of the favorite mantras rehashed by the racialist who is obsessing about "paid foreigners working for the mullahs".
Amusing side note on that same subject: for years they were claiming that the user who no longer posts is probably an MKO member from Albania. Then, after their sudden u-turn they went as far as reacting with a "like" to a long rant by that same purported MKO operative, when the latter was alleging that the Islamic Republic "ruined" the Iranian economy, drawing hollow comparisons with Turkey, south Korea and the shah era and so on. In other words, they began supporting whom they thought is an MKO footman. Perhaps because the MKO "are no South Asians recruited by the mullahs"? How immensely frustrated and emotionally unstable one has to be.
