Iran’s ideological state: faith, fear and favors fuel its vast propaganda and patronage network
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Iran Islamic Republic indoctrination system uses schools to distribute Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf and embed ideology in curriculum, according to Iran experts
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Schools, mosques, workplaces and media all became part of an ideological ecosystem designed to reinforce loyalty to the regime. But critics of Iran’s leadership say religion itself was often not the ultimate goal.
"Faith for them is their tool," Banafsheh Zand, an Iranian-American journalist and editor of the Iran So Far Away Substack, told Fox News Digital. "It’s not the end all to be all. It’s a tool that they can hide behind so that they can carry out all their criminalities."
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