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  1. "Iran has spent nearly 40 years building a media and cultural-production apparatus that no other member of the Axis possesses. Over ten years in Iran, I shadowed the leaders and filmmakers who have shaped their media operation. The Revolutionary Guard’s media arm includes production studios, film collectives, cultural centers, university programs, and a vast infrastructure for training successive generations of media-makers that first came into existence in the late 1980s. In the years following the Arab Spring, the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei repeatedly instructed Iranian storytellers to treat media as its primary battlefield. “The media is more effective than missiles, planes and drones in forcing the enemy to retreat and to influence hearts and minds,” Khamenei said in 2024 at a meeting with a group of poets. “All war is a media war. Whichever actor has greater media influence will achieve their goals.” Over the past 15 years, Khamenei made sure sufficient money, talent, and institutional priority flowed toward digital content creation. Today the IRGC operates or funds at least 50 production houses. It runs Iran’s major streaming services. It has steadily monopolized the country’s film world. Its media conglomerates have subsidiaries and spinoffs that are deliberately difficult to trace — privatized, diversified, structured so that the fingerprints are hard to read from outside. Several production houses specialize in feature-length films and television serials. Others, the ones that matter most right now, are small, fast, and built for the internet, made by a new generation coming to power in Iran as American-Israeli bombs kill off the elder leaders — one that is younger, savvier, and less afraid of the U.S."

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