Fars News Agency published an eight-point analysis of the “leadership line” of the strategy of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei, for Iran, which was extracted from his messages in June.

In a June 4 message, the Supreme Leader said that the United States and Israel have shifted their “hybrid war” toward two goals: public resistance and creating miscalculation among officials. In this context, confrontation through the economy, public trust, social cohesion, and governance—rather than missiles—is underway.

Eight strategies:

1. National unity as the infrastructure of power: Maintaining social cohesion is considered a national security necessity, not merely a moral good, because creating divisions between the people and the state is itself a goal of the enemy.

2. Economy and livelihoods as a priority of governance: Workers are framed as the محور of the “economic war,” and the parliament (Majles شورای اسلامی) has been tasked with curbing inflation, liquidity, production, and employment.

3. Rebuilding governance around efficiency and problem-solving: The parliament, the judiciary, and the government have been instructed to move from slogans to measurable outcomes that people experience directly.

4. Trust in officials along with capacity in foreign policy: Negotiations with the United States are not fully rejected, but accepting dialogue does not mean accepting the other side’s conditions.

5. Securing society against cognitive and media warfare: Cultural and media figures have been tasked with creating “linguistic and discursive defense” and strengthening the public’s ability to distinguish between news and psychological operations.

6. Turning citizens from subjects of politics into active components of national power: The population, families, and local networks, including the Basij, are considered a direct expansion of the state’s capacity.

7. Maintaining military superiority while building capacity against modern threats: New commanders are instructed to prioritize informational dominance, emerging technologies, and inter-branch coordination between the army and the Guards Corps, not merely increasing firepower.

8. Linking domestic power with regional standing and a new order: The messages about the Persian Gulf, Hajj, and Iraq frame Iran’s achievements after the war on a regional scale and seek a security order that depends less on foreign powers.