Iran’s embassies continue to fire back at US President Donald Trump on social media, posting a series of mocking, AI-generated memes to their official accounts that have often gone viral.
The flashy, often sarcastic posts, which tend to target the president directly, have become a defining part of Iran’s communication strategy during the war with the US.
Many of the memes attempt to poke fun at Trump’s online behavior while pushing Tehran’s talking points as both sides wage an online communications war.
‘Jesus’ image: One recent video posted to X by the Iranian Embassy in Tajikistan uses the since-deleted image Trump shared to Truth Social this week depicting himself as Jesus healing a sick person, which sparked widespread backlash. Trump said he thought the image depicted him as a doctor.
Christians across faith traditions — even many in the MAGA universe who have otherwise supported Trump — roundly denounced Trump’s rendering as “blasphemy.”
In the video shared by the embassy, a Christ-like figure descends from the sky, punches the apparent Trump-as-Jesus, sending blood spewing, as the president falls over a cliff into a pit of lava. In the background, a male voice says: “Your reckoning has come.”
Some Iranian memes dig further into Trump’s archives.
One post by the Iranian Embassy in Thailand this week said: “A wise man once said, ‘Open the strait or I will covfefe,’” a reference to a typo in a 2017 Trump tweet that became a viral joke.
Other memes tap into American popular culture and domestic politics.
‘Pirates of Hormuz’: One cleary AI-generated image recently shared by the Iran Embassy in Zimbabwe resembles a movie poster advertising the popular American movie franchise Pirates of the Caribbean.
This poster shows helicopters flying over burning ships at sea. Trump’s face is superimposed on the protagonist, and the title of the fake film is “Pirates of the Hormuz.”