On October 3, the Israeli newspaper “Haaretz” published an investigation prepared by the “The Marker” website, which revealed digital campaigns in the Persian language believed to be indirectly funded by Israel, and aims to influence Iranian public opinion by promoting “Reda Pahlavi”, another son of Shah for Iran, and depicting him as a possible alternative to the existing regime.
These campaigns included fabricated clips and propaganda content that supports “Bhalawi”, which is limited popular among Iranian communities abroad, but it remains a divisional symbol inside Iran, where it is seen as a inheritance of a former dictatorial regime that was supported by Israel and the United States, according to the newspaper.
The newspaper adds that the “Bahlawi” statements on his recent visit to Israel, in which he justified this step as necessary to obtain “international support”, came in conjunction with a wide electronic activity in Persian.
According to sources that spoke to “The Marker” and “Haaretz”, original speakers in Persian to manage fake accounts on platforms such as “X” and “Instagram”, used artificial intelligence tools to generate content, formulate messages and amplifying the supporting publications of “Bahwi”.
The sources reported that the campaign was funded by a private party receiving government support, and extended to other languages such as English and German, to form part of a broader digital impact campaign that has been working since the outbreak of the war in Gaza.
The investigation indicated that the aim of these networks is to re -direct the internal Iranian discourse through messages loyal to Israel and support the return of the monarchy.
These results are identical to what Ikad revealed in the publication of the publication of late June, in which she made it clear that the rhetoric of the “Bahwi” after the war on Era was the result of a coordinated digital inflation campaign led by Israeli, American and Iranian accounts, and worked to raise the interaction in a coordinated manner and promote the idea of ownership return from the war gate.
