New Delhi: While Iranian missiles continue to attack enemy vessels in the Strait of Hormuz and US bombers strike positions around Tehran, Iran is waging a different kind of ‘war’ against the United States and Donald Trump —through memes and takedowns posted from the official social media accounts of Iranian embassies and consulates around the world.
On Monday, President Trump stated that he had held talks with Iran over two days aimed at ending hostilities. One of the first responses came from Iran’s embassy in Kabul, which openly mocked his claim.
In a post titled ‘Trump’s Retreat After Iran’s Firm Warning’, the embassy wrote on X that Trump had effectively backed down. It claimed that after Iran warned it would target energy infrastructure across the region if attacked, Trump shelved any planned strike.
From Hyderabad to The Hague, Iranian diplomatic missions are being anything but diplomatic with their communiques via memes, AI videos, and oblique digs. And some are taking a blatantly aggressive stance too.
Last week, the Iranian Embassy in Pretoria shared an image on Instagram depicting the Strait of Hormuz filled with coffins draped in American flags, floating across the water.
“The only American thing that can pass through the Strait of Hormuz,” the caption read — an apparent retort to Trump’s earlier warning that the US would target Iran’s energy infrastructure if it did not reopen the crucial global oil route.
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A message from Hyderabad
Earlier this week, the Iranian Consulate in Hyderabad posted a photograph of a tree with a somewhat esoteric caption: “The history of the entity is less than the age of trees inside Iran’s Consulate in Hyderabad.”
Context was everything. The “entity” in question was Israel, and the post was a response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stating that Iran “must be wiped out” over its attacks on Israeli civilians.
The history of the entity is less than the age of trees inside Iran's Consulate in Hyderabad.#Iran https://t.co/fn4euDci0D pic.twitter.com/GvQm3BBfv9
— Iran Consulate – Hyderabad (@IraninHyderabad) March 22, 2026
The post got largely supportive reactions from Indian accounts, including an image of Netanyahu alongside a “wanted” poster accusing him of “crimes against humanity”, and captioned: “He is a clown.” Another joked: “Here before they claim Irani chai is actually Israeli chai.”
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Epstein to Tom & Jerry
The Iranian Embassy in The Hague, Netherlands, has been one of the most prolific of the lot. It started off by sharing an AI-generated video styled after Pixar’s Inside Out, showing creatures inside Trump’s brain frantically slamming a “lie” button while he denies ordering the strike that hit a girls’ school in Minab. The clip ends with the tagline: “Inside Out: Epstein’s Client.”
The same embassy followed up last week with a deadpan sarcastic “apology” to the US —for not staying quiet on Gaza, and for the inconvenient fact that a girls’ school just “happened” to be in the path of missiles.
We apologize to the Americans!
– for establishing our country in the middle of your military bases;
– for refusing to remain silent — unlike others — in the face of genocide in #GazaSOS ;
– for our girls' school happening to lie in the path of your missiles…
– …#Iran pic.twitter.com/v5o5UQinZv
— ☫ Iran Embassy in The Hague, The Netherlands (@IRAN_in_NL) March 19, 2026
Iran’s embassy in South Africa, meanwhile, reshared a Tom and Jerry meme on Monday to mock Washington’s inability to reopen the Strait of Hormuz by force. The cat wielded a bat labelled “Strait of Hormuz” against a bulldog draped in the American flag.
“The Strait of Hormuz is open to everyone except the enemies. It’s logical, isn’t it?” the embassy’s comment read.
(Edited by Asavari Singh)