{"id":603328,"date":"2026-04-14T12:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/603328\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T12:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:05:08","slug":"iran-slams-youtube-ban-on-pro-iranian-groups-lego-style-ai-videos-us-israel-war-on-iran-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/603328\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran slams YouTube ban on pro-Iranian group\u2019s Lego-style AI videos | US-Israel war on Iran News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead\">Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry spokesman says the move aims to \u2018suppress the truth about their illegal war on Iran\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"avatar\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/author\/al_jazeera_staff_150119130629458\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776168308_611_2017-06-08T131939Z_1189275883_RC11B0FE7F20_RTRMADP_3_GULF-QATAR-JAZEERA-1714943623.jpg\"   aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Published On 14 Apr 202614 Apr 2026<\/p>\n<p>Iran has condemned a ban imposed by YouTube on a pro-Iranian group that releases Lego-style artificial intelligence videos after posting one lampooning United States President Donald Trump and declaring \u201cIran won\u201d last week.<\/p>\n<p>Explosive Media said on X last week that YouTube suspended its account for \u201cviolent content\u201d, while the group\u2019s other online accounts appeared unaffected.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeriously! Are our LEGO-style animations actually violent?\u201d Explosive Media asked, in its post on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said the ban was a move to suppress \u201cthe truth\u201d about the US-Israel war on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a land that proudly hosts Pixar, DreamWorks Animation, and The Walt Disney Company, an independent animated YouTube channel \u2013 which had organically grown by depicting U.S. aggression &amp; warmongering, and garnered millions of viewers \u2013 was abruptly shut down!! Why?!\u201d he posted on X on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Baghaei added: \u201cSimply to suppress the truth about their \u2018illegal war\u2019 on Iran and shield the American administration\u2019s false narrative from any competing voice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meme videos on Trump<\/p>\n<p>Explosive Media, a group of pro-Iran creators that describes itself as independent but is widely suspected of having ties to the Iranian government, has produced a series of such videos that have racked up millions of views during the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way to crush imperialism has been shown to the world. Trump surrendered. IRAN WON,\u201d read the caption of its video on X after the two-week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/4\/8\/us-iran-ceasefire-deal-what-are-the-terms-and-whats-next\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ceasefire<\/a> agreement was announced on April 7.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTACO will always remain TACO,\u201d it added, referring to the acronym \u201cTrump always chickens out\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Another clip on X depicted Trump \u2013 caricatured with an oversized yellow head and a flaming backside \u2013 holding a sign that read: \u201cVICTORY! I am a loser.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Explosive Media, whose videos often tap into US popular culture, seems to be portraying Trump as old, isolated, and prone to childish tantrums, seemingly disconnected from reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry spokesman says the move aims to \u2018suppress the truth about their illegal war on Iran\u2019.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,5897,1259,44,1942,61,772,1690,206083],"class_list":{"0":"post-603328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-iran","14":"tag-middle-east","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-social-media","17":"tag-technology","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-us-canada","20":"tag-us-israel-war-on-iran"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}