basijasatid Soft power Studies 2322-5580 10 2 2021 02 19 Media and Public Opinion; Recognizing the Performance of Al-Arabiya Network in the Project of Iranophobia and anti-Shiism in the Arab world Media and Public Opinion; Recognizing the Performance of Al-Arabiya Network in the Project of Iranophobia and anti-Shiism in the Arab world 1 33 128678 FA Masoud Motalebi Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Islamic Azad University, Shahrood Branch 0000-0002-4854-6542 Journal Article 2021 03 09 After the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, anti-Shiism and Iranophobia are two important factors in most of the media in the Arab world, whether in written form such as Al-Hayat, Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Akhbar Al-Khaleej, Al-Ittihad, Al-Riyadh or visually as a network. Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya, Al Arab. <br />The purpose of this research, which has been written in a descriptive-analytical method based on "representation theory", is to study the role of the Saudi Al-Arabiya network in influencing the public opinion of the Arab world by representing some anti-Iranian and Shiite events. According to the theory of representation in the process of influencing public opinion, a media is never a neutral tool and a neutral mediator in presenting the image; Because the media relies on language and meaning, and language and meaning always rely on power in the context of discourse. According to the "biased representation" theory, the Al-Arabiya network, based on the Wahhabi ideology, traces and pursues a policy of Iranophobia and anti-Shiism in a way that even Iran is more dangerous to the Arab world than the Zionist regime. The results of the present study show that in the process of Saudi psycho-media operations against Islamic Iran and also deciphering the revelation of Arab-Israeli relations in the media dictionary of Al-Arabiya network, the Islamic Republic should be portrayed as an anti-Sunni military. It has nothing to do but suppress the Sunnis of the region and dominate the Islamic and Arab world in the form of the Shiite Crescent. After the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, anti-Shiism and Iranophobia are two important factors in most of the media in the Arab world, whether in written form such as Al-Hayat, Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Akhbar Al-Khaleej, Al-Ittihad, Al-Riyadh or visually as a network. Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya, Al Arab. <br />The purpose of this research, which has been written in a descriptive-analytical method based on "representation theory", is to study the role of the Saudi Al-Arabiya network in influencing the public opinion of the Arab world by representing some anti-Iranian and Shiite events. According to the theory of representation in the process of influencing public opinion, a media is never a neutral tool and a neutral mediator in presenting the image; Because the media relies on language and meaning, and language and meaning always rely on power in the context of discourse. According to the "biased representation" theory, the Al-Arabiya network, based on the Wahhabi ideology, traces and pursues a policy of Iranophobia and anti-Shiism in a way that even Iran is more dangerous to the Arab world than the Zionist regime. The results of the present study show that in the process of Saudi psycho-media operations against Islamic Iran and also deciphering the revelation of Arab-Israeli relations in the media dictionary of Al-Arabiya network, the Islamic Republic should be portrayed as an anti-Sunni military. It has nothing to do but suppress the Sunnis of the region and dominate the Islamic and Arab world in the form of the Shiite Crescent. https://www.spba.ir/article_128678_e79ac4d63b09fb8c4842c2ce004cd4e2.pdf