Interdisciplinary Studies in Media and Culture

The confrontation of media discourses in the 12-day imposed war: Critical analysis of Al Jazeera, Iran International, Israel's Channel 13

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Authors

Rahim amraee 1
farhad zivyar 2

1 department of Islamic education, Faculty of Shahid Sadooghi. Farhangian University. Tehran, Iran

2 Associate Professor of faculty of Political Thought, Revolution and Islamic Civilization, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies.

10.30465/ismc.2026.53052.2996
Abstract
Some media outlets, under the influence of the dominance of politics, reflect on issues with a different approach. research is about the training of a predefined gaze in the representation of Operation Promise 3 and the Western student protests against Israel. The question is what reciprocal patterns media discourses have used to represent these two events? That is, how have a military action and a civil movement been represented by three foreign media outlets? The basis of the article in the analysis is Fairclough's critical discourse analysis method at three levels of description, interpretation, and explanation. The statistical population is the news reports of Al Jazeera, Iran International, Israel's Channel 13, and some domestic media outlets on the US protests (May 2004) and Operation Promise 3 (June 2005). The dual political strategy in student protests with the apparent acceptance of the right to protest and the operational delegitimization of the protests is the result of the analyses. Other results include the different reflections of media discourses on Operation True Promise 3, including "cautious realism" and in some media outlets "reflecting the discourse of threats and acknowledgement of Iran's military power" and in others "the discourse of reducing Iran's military power."

Keywords

Media, Discourse Analysis, Iran'
s Offensive Operations, Student Protests, Double Standard
Subjects
Interdisciplinary Studies in Media and Culture

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 12 September 2026

  • Receive Date 21 October 2025
  • Revise Date 09 September 2026
  • Accept Date 26 August 2026
  • Publish Date 12 September 2026

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