Indo-Israeli Disinformation Amid Iran-Israel War

In this ever-fast-growing war fare in West Asia, defined in no uncertain terms by the current  Iran-Israel War (tensions) an alarming trend of misinformation has bitted the surface, led by the Indo-Israeli population of networks with an obvious focus of using this information to its own advantage. This premeditated propaganda campaign especially prominently seen in the latest broadcasting media and unofficial diplomatic gossip seeks to expose a non-existence sponsorship by Pakistan, China and Russia of Iran in its tussle with Israel. But, when critically examined, this story seems to have no plausible intelligence correlate to it, and turns out to be a well-engineered operation of narrative production to obscure facts and deflect the attention of the international community on the real destabilizers of the region. And the nature and timing of this disinformation wave points to an attempt by diplomatically isolated India and militarily overwhelmed Israel to snow-white together in an attempt to shift the narrative in the region, rebranding themselves as the targeted targets against perceived and created axis of resistance allegedly supported by the three states. Yet facts fairly considered do not meet according to such comfortable fiction.
To begin with there is none of this substantive or independently verified intelligence to go by which alleges that the likes of Pakistan, China and Russia are actually aiding in the Iranian military campaign against Israel. The foreign policy of Pakistan, specifically has been both coherent and evenhanded Islamabad has been repeatedly urging the de-escalation and restraint in the Middle East, pointing at diplomacy rather than militarization. The very stability of Pakistan is highly connected to its geopolitical and economic interests of not being sucked into any confrontations that may burn the whole of Asia in flames. China, which has strong energy and trading interest with Iran, has equally walked the tight rope supporting dialogue and peaceful settlement of the issue by multilateral bodies but not military alliances. Although Russia shares complicated relations with Iran with regard to such issues as Syria, Russia has its own strategic calculations unlike the immediate war intentions by Iran against Israel. However, the Indo-Israeli propaganda effort intentionally confuses the existence of these individual sovereign policies into a false picture of an anti-Western combination planning together with Iran. The reason behind this created theory has two-fold purposes to defend their own aggressive stance in the region as well as a preemptive attack on any newly established multipolar diplomacy that can threaten the US- Israeli or Indian hegemony accordingly in their respective regions.
This is not an organic or fact-based examination by regional actors concerned but a whole sale project of narrative production aimed to militarize flows of information. Propagating unverified or even false allegations of trilateral assistance to Iran is just the kind of a tactic that fits a tendency in Indo-Israeli information operations observed in other contexts in the past. When their unilateral or provocative policies, such as Israeli attacks against Syria or against Gaza, or Indian military adventurism in Kashmir or along the Sino-Indian border, attract international attention, or criticism, we find this usual method of diversion used by the two to protect themselves. Disinformation is conducted to broaden the area of perceived threats, where there are further suggestions of larger conspiracies which invokes third party influence without evidence. The current allegations of Pakistan, China and Russia therefore perfectly deciphers this mold. They are supposed to muddle the diplomatic response, to obscure divisions between truth and fictional account, and to establish an illusion of a big, concerted axis of the antagonists against the West and its allies, an idea that has no support in reality outlines of the policies nor the actions of these accused nations.
In the case of Pakistan these allegations are both politically and strategically unsound. Over the decades, Islamabad has scrupulously avoided being involved in the Middle Eastern wars despite close religious and economic relations with most of these states. The priority of Pakistan is also clear; this is protection to its national interests in terms of regional maintenance and avoiding any regions of conflict that may spread across to South Asia. Its non-interventionist action in many Iran-related crises, such as the US-Iran antipathy of the times gone, proves this attitude of non-alignment and promotion of peace. However, the Indo-Israeli saga trills rather playfully with such history in the name of creating a gesture of falsely flinging a burden on Pakistan to internationalize its hostilities with Islamabad. India is dragging Pakistan into an anti-Iranian pincer (or supposedly an anti-Iranian alliance) in order to pass off their aggressive actions whether in the military buildup or in the diplomatic circles as defensive against Iran. This is traditional narration hypocrisy that does not aim to portray the truth, but to create a tactical alibi.
Another world power that does not locate in this unrealistic concept of malign support to Iran is China, which is the second largest economy in the world and a global stake holder to the stability of the Middle East conflicts. The most celebrated of these deals was the Saudi-Iran rapprochement, which saw Beijing broker the regional tensions between the two arch rivals, a move which was internationally acclaimed as one of the few victories in easing the international tensions in the region. Wars are not something that China wants as its economic interests, such as Belt and Road initiatives, energy security requirements, and much more are too deep to risk ruining them.
To imply that China would now have a secret role facilitating Iranian military buildup would go against its overall policy with the region. Likewise, Russia, though having certain interests in Syria with Iran is also involved in its own confusing game of power interests with the west over Ukraine and Europe and will have little interest to add another potentially volatile war front in the Middle East which will have potentially unwanted international implications. This search by the Indo-Israeli initiative to clump together these various players into one common anti-Western coalition is therefore not geopolitically conclusive but a mere myth making power part.
What is especially concerning about this disinformation campaign is that it brings to the regional peace and diplomacy as a whole. In fabricating a picture of a new hostile bloc supporting Iran, India and Israel do more than increase tension when it could have been avoided, but they also complicate the entire process of diplomacy. Having been sown in the international discourse, this story threatens to legalize the shoot first encounters, unilateral military interventions, as well as collective punishments of nations grounded on association guilt rather than on identified behavior. It corrupts international discourse, and instead of governmental policies being made based on facts, there is hysteria of distrust. In that respect, the Indo-Israeli overreach narrative is not about strength but rather exasperation need to keep the narrative as their own one as their internal and external politics lose traction because of the international opprobrium, as well as, the national pressures. Both Israel, preoccupied by domestic political scandals and suffering war weariness, and India, which has isolated itself internationally because of its offensive policies in south Asia, find a reason to change the news items of discussion to so called external conspiracies against them.
It is not a pattern in denial. Whether it is illegal settlement in Palestine or annexation of Kashmir by India, whenever unilateral action provokes universal criticism, global orchestrated disinformation flails the net to create confusion. In this case, we have yet another such attempt with the war between Iran and Israel as a background. The stakes are at a much greater level though. The miscalculations created by a false story implicating the nuclear armed states such as Pakistan or great powers such as China and Russia in the Middle East wars may have disastrous results. It might justify deadly preemptive military policies or economic sanctions that bring the world into the brink of all-out war. It is thus morally the right thing to counter such disinformation activity and shine light on them before they acquire a more significant grip on the worldwide policymaking sphere.
The integrity of Pakistani stand has been compared to the Western chicanery between India and Israel. The peace-seeking, diplomatic, and non-interference policies of Islamabad also comply with the global standards and UN Charter. The reason it does not want military responses in solving regional conflicts and instead encourages multilateral diplomacy is the bright way to lead in the face of growing crises.
These opinions are worth attention instead of distortion. The Indo-Israeli narrative also distorts reality by falsely incriminating Pakistan, as well as disrespecting Pakistani sovereign right to pursue an independent foreign policy by letting national interests come first in its foreign relations, not the interests of others.
The Indo-Israeli disinformation operation during the Iran-Israel war is irresponsible and hazardous propaganda of convenience that aims at achieving little strategic merits at the cost of truth, peace and stability in the region. It is a classic of narrative engineering in that awkward facts including their contribution to tension stoking are swept a side in the mists of engineered indictments against unimplicated powers. Such a strategy is not an expression of force or legality but strategic as well as diplomatic weakness. The international community should be alert in regard to such manipulation and demand reviewed out comes that must be based on facts and not giving into the drumming of fear. Pakistan, China, and Russia have been unfairly portrayed as bad guys in a geopolitical story written by others in which they have no interest, and least of all, need to be. They boldly defend the traditions of sovereign decision making, and peaceful cooperation in the region. The web of Indo-Israeli lies in this regard can only reveal their own crisis of credibility in a more multipolar world order and disinformation is no longer being greeted with impunity.