🔴 The “Esther Project” & the “War of Narratives”
💰 $7,000 Per Post in Support of Israel

✍️ Mostafa Amiri

▪️Documents show that Israel is spending large sums of money to strengthen its image on social media.

▪️Through the so-called “Esther Project,” influencers are paid $7,000 for each Instagram post supporting Israel. [1]

🇮🇱 Netanyahu has called social media the “eighth front” of the war [2] and stated that “such projects are a primary tool for Israel in the war of narratives,” considering them an important part of Israel’s media strategy. [3]

🔻 Meanwhile, here in Iran, we are still struggling with the basics.

There are individuals and organizations with access to public funds who spend them on factional and political disputes and create various networks, websites, and other platforms. Yet when it comes to the fundamental ideological and strategic issues that lie at the root of everything, we still remain uncertain and hesitant. [4]

✅ Notes:

1. Israel Is Paying Influencers $7,000 Per Post (Link)
2. Inside Israel’s Esther Project (Link)
3. https://t.me/Monji_EmamMahdi/39325
4. https://t.me/asrzohur110/685

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🔴 From Sayyid Ruhollah Razavi to the U.S. Secretary of State

✍️ Mostafa Amiri

🔻 Sayyid Ruhollah Razavi, a native of Kashmir—a land with a strong Shi'a presence—is repeatedly criticized simply because he does not hold Iranian citizenship.

This reminded me of an incident I would like to share.

One of my Lebanese friends once told me:

“You Iranians are very racist.”

Surprised, I asked, “Why?”

He replied:

“We have been living in Iran for more than 20 years, yet we are still treated inappropriately.”

I told him:

“In my view, the current borders between countries are artificial borders, largely created after World War II.”

If it were up to me, I would proudly grant many of you Iranian identity documents and citizenship.

I said:

“Should a certain ‘Wahhabi’ who kills his own countrymen be an Iranian citizen, while you Lebanese, who have spent years fighting in defense of the sanctity of Shi'a Islam, still remain without Iranian citizenship after twenty years?”

There are even foreign nationals who have married Iranians, yet the law still imposes certain restrictions on them.

At the very least, those who constantly speak of Western civilization should take a look at Marco Rubio: his parents were from Cuba, yet today he is the U.S. Secretary of State.

Got the point?

🔻 Homeland means the borders of Shi'a Islam. In Islam, there is no such thing as borders.

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🌿 Announcement for the Esteemed Followers of the Rahyafte Channel 🆔 @rahyafte_en

Dear friends and followers,

For a long time, we have been sharing precise and research-based Mahdavi studies written by the scholar and author Mostafa Amiri from the channel:

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on the Rahyafte channel.

These publications aim to provide deeper insight into Mahdism, the signs of the Appearance, and related scholarly discussions, and we will continue sharing these valuable researches with our audience.

Those who wish to support the continuation of writing, research, and expansion of these Mahdavi studies are welcome to contribute financially.

📌 All contributions will be sent directly to the original author and primary researcher of these works, Mostafa Amiri.

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🔴 BBYO: Jewish Youth for the “Future of Israel”

▪️ This organization knows no borders and operates in more than 60 countries around the world. The criterion is being Jewish — not artificial borders.

💭 One wishes that a similar initiative could also be established across the countries of the Shiite Axis of Resistance and throughout the Muslim world.

🔻 Be sure to check out the channel’s next post as well.

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🔴 “Hasbara”: Israel’s Propaganda on Social Media

✍️ Mostafa Amiri

🔻 Hasbara is a Hebrew term meaning justification, persuasion, and the deliberate construction of narratives aimed at shaping global public opinion.

This concept is considered a central pillar of the Israeli regime’s “media warfare.”

Hasbara was initially carried out through print media. After 2021, its direction was transferred to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and under the leadership of Yair Lapid, a $30 million project was launched to support it.

These efforts included influencers and pro-Israel groups on social media.

As international criticism intensified, Israel allocated a $150 million budget for 2025 in an effort to influence global public opinion regarding Israeli actions.[1]

The editor-in-chief of the English-language Tehran Times has stated that the budget allocated by Israel for Hasbara in 2026 is $729 million.[2]

💭 We hope that those involved in designing and developing the media battle formation for the “cognitive warfare” front have, at the very least, heard the word Hasbara!

🔻 Martyr Imam Khamenei said:

“In confronting the enemy’s soft-power threats, produce content and ideas; this is more important than hardware-based defense.”[3]

✅ Notes:

1. https://farhikhteganonline.ir/news-paper/page/263365
2. https://x.com/Sarfi_M/status/2000562347879076172
3. https://farsi.khamenei.ir/speech-content?id=59361

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🔴 Martyr Imam Khamenei:

▪️ “In confronting the enemy’s soft-power threats, produce content and ideas; this is more important than hardware-based defense.”

🔻 Cognitive Warfare

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🔴 From Washington to Tel Aviv: Politics with a Taste of Raw Pizza

✍️ Mostafa Amiri

🔻 Have you read the channel’s previous posts? The enemy also considers an “eschatological addendum” when making its political decisions.

Don’t we see Netanyahu’s statements about the project of a “Greater Israel” and the idea of “from the Nile to the Euphrates”? Don’t we see the circle of Christian Zionists surrounding Trump?

▪️ This very ideology encourages Trump to provide unconditional support for Israel.

▪️ Netanyahu, too, says: “We have no better friend in the world than America.”

More than 100 members of the U.S. Congress are Evangelicals and supporters of Zionism.

▪️ Millions of members of the International Christian community are active in support of Israel.

🔻 In the book “The Apocalypse According to Zionism,” we discussed in detail the ideological foundations and ideological appendage of the U.S. ruling establishment.

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🔴 Iranian Officials Failed to See Trump’s “Mind Map”

✍️ Mostafa Amiri

🔻 In the program “Strategic Dialogue,” Hamzeh Safavi acknowledges that Iranian officials failed to properly understand Trump and assessed his behavior and decision-making logic through the lens of previous patterns.

Safavi’s son says:

“We did not act based on a proper understanding of Trump’s psychology.”

If we analyze the situation solely through military logic, Trump should not have decided to attack Iran.

However, Trump had an eschatological, Evangelical ideological worldview that contributed to the decision to launch an attack.

✅ Postscript:

If some officials really thought this way, I am genuinely sorry.

It was as clear as daylight. Wasn’t there a competent adviser around some of these officials to tell them that Trump does not view Iran solely through the lens of “military logic”?

At a meeting, these very issues were discussed. Someone said to me: “You should have been an adviser to these officials.” I replied: “You must be joking.”

Time and again, this channel has discussed “Trump’s psychology” and the fact that his “ultimate target” is Iran. All the channel’s followers know this.

🔻 Watch the video. These are bitter words.

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🇮🇹 Italian Converts to Shi‘ism: The Emergence of “Italian Shi‘ism”

✍️ A growing body of academic research has examined the conversion of Italians to Twelver Shi‘ism and the emergence of what scholars describe as “Italian Shi‘ism.”

🔻 One of the most detailed studies is Minoo Mirshahvalad’s 2024 book:

📖 Crises and Conversions: The Unlikely Avenues of “Italian Shiism”

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, the book examines the phenomenon of conversion to Shi'a Islam in Italy and explores the intellectual, religious, historical, and sociological factors behind these conversions. The research draws on multidisciplinary work conducted between 2018 and 2023.

🔹 The study pays particular attention to the influence of Traditionalist thinkers such as René Guénon and Julius Evola, as well as the role of Henry Corbin and the impact of the Iranian Revolution on the intellectual trajectories of some Italian converts.

🔹 Another peer-reviewed study by Mirshahvalad, published in Entangled Religions in 2024, focuses specifically on Italians who converted to Shi‘ism and their subsequent contribution to the dissemination of knowledge about Twelver Shi‘ism in Italy.

The research uses semi-structured interviews, historical sources, and analysis of published literature to examine the motivations behind conversion and the intellectual activities of converts.

📚 According to the study, some of the conversion trajectories were influenced by religious studies, philosophy, Traditionalist literature, political and social developments, and encounters with Shi‘i thought. The converts also became involved in publishing, intellectual activity, and the production of literature about Shi‘ism.

🔎 Earlier research by the same scholar, published in 2020, examined how converts themselves contributed to reshaping the presentation and development of Shi‘ism in Italy. That study also explored the interaction between conversion, Iranian religious outreach, Italian Traditionalist intellectual currents, and the broader Italian social context.

💭 In other words, the phenomenon is not simply a story of religious conversion. Academic research suggests that, in some cases, conversion was intertwined with a broader intellectual search involving religion, philosophy, Traditionalism, identity, politics, and a critique of modernity.

🔻 The phenomenon of European conversion to Twelver Shi‘ism deserves closer and independent study—particularly through the personal stories and intellectual journeys of the converts themselves.

📌 Academic Sources:
1️⃣ Minoo Mirshahvalad — Crises and Conversions: The Unlikely Avenues of “Italian Shiism”
Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-55877-1

2️⃣ Minoo Mirshahvalad — “Conversions to Shiism in Italy and Editorial Ventures”
Entangled Religions, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2024
https://doi.org/10.46586/er.15.2024.11570

3️⃣ Minoo Mirshahvalad — “Converts and the Remaking of Shi’ism in Italy”
Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, Vol. 31, Issue 4, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1080/09596410.2020.1858596

4️⃣ University of Turin — Institutional Research Record for Crises and Conversions
https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/2029051

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🔴 A Lesson from a Donkey!

It is said that the late Shaykh Gholam-Reza Yazdi, a contemporary spiritual scholar known for his piety and spiritual influence, was frequently invited to various gatherings to deliver sermons and recite Rauḍah.

His only means of transportation was a donkey, which he used for his travels.

One day, while riding his donkey to a Rauḍah gathering, the donkey stepped into a hole in the street and was somewhat injured. After tending to the animal, the Shaykh led it to the far end of the alley, tied its reins near the entrance of the house where the gathering was being held, and went inside. When the ceremony was over, he mounted his donkey and returned home.

The following year, he was once again invited to the same house to deliver a sermon.

Shaykh Gholam-Reza once again mounted the same donkey and set off toward the gathering. The donkey was moving along energetically. But as soon as they reached the beginning of that alley, the donkey suddenly stopped and refused to enter!

The Shaykh got off and pulled the reins as hard as he could, but to no avail.

Suddenly, those around him saw the Shaykh sit down beside the alley, lean against the wall, and burst into tears! 😢

The people tried to comfort him, saying:

“Nothing serious has happened! You go on to the gathering, and we will look after your donkey here until you return.”

The Shaykh replied:

“That is not why I am crying! I am crying for myself — because I have not learned even as much of a lesson as this donkey has!

A year ago, this donkey stepped into a hole in this very alley and was injured. Yet it refuses to set foot in this alley ever again!

But we human beings, who claim to be rational, repeat the same mistake again and again — and still fail to learn from it.”

🌿 May Allah have mercy upon Allameh Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, who held a special affection for the late Shaykh Gholam-Reza Yazdi. He would sometimes recount stories and anecdotes about him as well.

✍️ Ahmad-Hossein Sharifi

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💌 The author of Sulook with One’s Spouse recounts:

🔸️ Before I started a family and got married, my daily routine was generally to visit the holy shrine of Lady Fatima al-Ma‘suma (peace be upon her) early in the morning. After completing my devotional and academic activities, I would wait for the return of the Gnostic jurist, Ayatollah Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat (may God sanctify his soul), from the shrine to his home, so that I could ask him my questions and benefit from his ethical guidance. This practice brought with it many blessings and positive effects.

🔹️ I continued this routine even after getting married, until one day that great, insightful mystic unexpectedly said to me:

“It would not be a bad idea if, on some days, you did not attend your lessons and instead devoted your time to your family. The late Muzzafar (Allamah Muzzafar) would sometimes not attend his lessons; in the evenings, he would visit his friends and benefit from their writings.”

🍃 From this question and advice of that spiritually accomplished sage, I understood that there was a deeper meaning behind his words. There was a knot in my affairs that this sharp-sighted man of God wanted to untie and a form of heedlessness he wanted to dispel.

He wanted me—this humble servant, trapped in my own illusions and imaginings—to understand that the way I had lived before marriage had to change after marriage, in such a way that none of the many rights of my life partner would be neglected or violated.

🔸️ After returning home, I spoke with my wife and asked for her thoughts. I realized that she had developed some resentment in her heart because she spent most of her days and nights alone, away from her relatives and loved ones, yet she had never expressed it.

And it is precisely these accumulated resentments and the neglect of people’s rights that become thorns on the path of spiritual journeying. They prevent a person from attaining spiritual benefits and lifting the veils that stand between the servant and God, while diminishing the blessings and fruits of one's intellectual and practical efforts.

📚 Source: Sulook with One’s Spouse, pp. 17–18

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🎥 Imam al-Mahdi (may Allah hasten his reappearance) addressing Ayatollah Na’ini:

🔸️ “There may be dangers facing this country, and hardships and calamities may come, but we will not allow it to fall!”

🌹 https://eitaa.com/solok_shieh/14577

During World War I, Iran had become a battleground for the advancing forces of the Allies and the Central Powers, including the Russians, British, Germans, and others. Severe famine and widespread killings had also taken place throughout the country.

The late Ayatollah Muhammad-Husayn Na’ini was deeply distressed, fearing that the country was being destroyed under such circumstances.

He turned to God in supplication, and that night, overcome with grief and sorrow, he fell asleep.

In his dream, he saw a wall shaped like the map of Iran. The wall was collapsing and about to fall.

Still within the dream, he cried out:

“O God, come to Iran’s aid! Iran is being destroyed!”

He says:

“At that very moment, I saw His Eminence, Wali al-Asr, Imam al-Mahdi (peace be upon him), appear. With his blessed hand, he gestured toward the wall and restored it to its place.

Then he said:

‘There may be dangers facing this country. Calamities may come, and people may endure hardships, but we will not allow it to fall. We will not allow it to fall.’”

🌿 A message of hope amid the darkest of times: divine trials may come, but God’s protection does not cease.

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