Effects of violation of social health with cognitive warfare and its criminalization in Iran

Subject Areas : Psychology

Jamal Beigi ¹ , fatemeh ahadi ² , seyed reza ehsanpoor ³ , mehdi omani ⁴

1 - Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Law Research Center, Maragheh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Maragheh, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Maragheh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Maragheh, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Faculty of Humanities, Shahid University, Tehran, Iran
4 - Researcher, Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Law Research Center, Maragheh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Maragheh, Iran

Received: 2023-03-01 Accepted : 2023-10-28 Published : 2023-09-23

Keywords: social health, cognitive warfare, mind control, psychological inductions, repeated Article 500,

Abstract :

One of the important components of establishing order and security and guaranteeing the rights of its people is the existence of social health. one of the important duties of governments is to establish social health and they have established laws to maintain it. But in spite of that, at some times, people have tried to violate the social health by abusing the weak thinking and discernment of people, using the tools of cognitive warfare and with psychological inductions, and as a result, they have inflamed the atmosphere of the society and caused insecurity and chaos in the society. They become society. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to investigate the violation of social health through the tools of cognitive warfare, which Iran's legislative policy will also be investigated. The research method in this research is descriptive and analytical, and data collection is also in the form of questionnaires. The method of conducting the research was qualitative and the findings of the research indicate that cognitive warfare is a new tool for violating social health and criminals in this way lead the society towards disorder and chaos and create insecurity in the society. It should be noted that the legislator of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 2019, by repeatedly adding Article 500 to the Islamic Penal Code, has adopted a new approach to deal with cognitive warfare and in this way has been able to take a right step to establish order and maintain the social health of citizens.