Brett Schaefer

Yes.

Yeah.

That one in particular, the blockade, blockade video.

which I believe was produced by a German, but again, was picked up by Iranian diplomatic accounts.

It went viral and we're talking tens of millions of views here.

So these are things that are really penetrating outside of the kind of networks that typically would engage with diplomatic content and diplomatic accounts.

It does.

I mean, this is sort of the new AI-generated form of political satire.

So they're satirizing all of these figures in the Trump administration, but they're doing it in the ways that, you know, we've seen this done for decades.

They are trying to make a caricature out of their enemy, trying to cut them down to size.

So it's taken on a new, very digital form.

But I think the intent is something that we've seen for a very long time when you see these sort of power dynamics at play and you see opponents of a regime or a political movement using satire to try to cut down the other side.

They are.

And, you know, Iranian propaganda has long been very anti-American.

So this is not new.

This is the feature.

But the sort of fun, playful content that we've seen Iranian diplomats start putting out during the war, this is new.

Before the war started, Iranian diplomats did not have much of a following on X. They were not seen as particularly effective communicators.

But that has all changed, particularly a couple of the embassies in Africa.

I mean, they have seen their follower numbers jumped by tens of thousands, some cases hundreds of thousands.