Back in Nov. 2013, as negotiations continued toward what ultimately became Obama’s Iran nuke deal, Iranian political analyst Mohammad Sadeq Al-Hosseini said: “We are engaged in a fierce war with the Americans on all levels.” That war continues to this day, and the mullahs who rule the Islamic Republic have just opened a new front.

IranWire reported Friday that “the Islamic Republic has launched what it calls a ‘hybrid warfare headquarters,’” and that this is a major operation, as the staff consists of over 40,000 Islamic seminary students. Clearly the mullahs consider this to be an extremely important initiative. 

The Islamic Republic cannot take its war against the United States to U.S. territory in terms of military action, and so they’re opting for training “soft war officers” whose mission is countering “Western psychological operations” with some of their own. The new initiative is called Balagh-e-Mobin, or Clear Conveyance of the Message.