Sa’ed News: The headline of Euronews Persian about the return of Ukrainian war-injured soldiers to the battlefield in the Russia-Ukraine war adopted language inspired by the Islamic Revolution of Iran and the Sacred Defense of the Iranian people.
According to the political news service of Sa’ed News, Javan newspaper wrote: The headline of Euronews Persian regarding the return of Ukrainian war-injured soldiers to the battlefield in the Russia-Ukraine war adopted language inspired by the Islamic Revolution of Iran and the Sacred Defense of the Iranian people. This demonstrates that Western Persian-language media use every trick and tactic to influence the Iranian people, even on issues like the Russia-Ukraine war, which is not directly related to them.
Euronews Persian chose the following headline for one of its reports: "Battle Against Russian Forces Despite Amputations: Ukrainian Veterans Return to the Front."
Concepts such as "veteran" (janbaz) and "frontline" (jebheh) hold deep value in Persian literature and have specific significance in Shia culture. During the Iranian people's struggle against the Pahlavi regime and later during the Sacred Defense against the Ba'athist invasion of Iran, these concepts became even more widely recognized among the general public.
However, Western Persian-language media have never used such terms when referring to the Iranian people. Instead of "martyr" (shahid), they use "killed" (koshteh shodeh), and instead of "veteran" (janbaz), they use "disabled" (ma'lul) or "injured" (majruh). Interestingly, the very concepts that the Iranian people believe in were never applied to them, yet now, to portray Ukraine as just and Russia as unjust in this war, these media outlets are willing to adopt these terms!
Another noteworthy point is that Euronews Persian framed the report in a way that portrays the Ukrainian soldiers' return solely as an act of sacrifice for their homeland. Naturally, if a similar story were about Iran, they would not depict it as a sacrifice for the nation but rather as a sign of Iran's weakness in recruiting forces for the battlefield.
