The knowledge entrance has been central to the Iranian authorities’s conflict effort.
For an exterior viewers, there may be an revolutionary on-line technique that has consisted of AI Lego, memes and hip hop diss tracks directed at Donald Trump and the MAGA base. However this coexists with extra brutal home ways: crackdowns, arrests and web blackouts.
The outcome has been the Iranian authorities making use of the web for PR internationally, whereas concurrently stopping the Iranian folks from brazenly accessing the online themselves.
Contributors:
Ali Hashem – Correspondent, Al Jazeera English
Mehran Kamrava – Professor of Authorities, Georgetown College in Qatar
Tara Kangarlou – Journalist & Writer, The Heartbeat of Iran
Maral Karimi – Lecturer, Toronto Metropolitan College
On our radar
The killing of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil unfolded within the method that so many Israeli assassinations of journalists in Gaza have – minute by minute, hour by hour, in a sample that has turn into shockingly acquainted. There’s the surveillance, the strike, the obstruction of rescue after which, the denial – Israel’s insistence that it doesn’t goal journalists, medics or rescue staff.
Meenakshi Ravi reviews.
Pakistan’s peacemaker second and the lacking tales
Pakistan has discovered itself on the centre of one of many world’s most consequential tales – by internet hosting talks between the USA and Iran, brokering ceasefires, incomes the very public reward of Donald Trump and making headlines around the globe.
However this PR second is obscuring an important deal, together with an undercover conflict with Afghanistan and a crushing cost-of-living disaster at house. We converse to Amber Rahim Shamsi in regards to the home politics behind Pakistan’s diplomatic second within the solar.
That includes:
Amber Rahim Shamsi – Pakistan Editor, Nukta
Revealed On 25 Apr 2026
