New Delhi: As the Israel-Iran-US conflict rages in West Asia, Iranian embassies worldwide have deployed a new weapon: memes. Their target is the United States and Donald Trump.
The campaign appears to have been sparked by the Iran Embassy in South Africa, which now has over 1,00,000 followers, and posts regular memes and videos targeting the US aggression.
Posts from other Iran embassies include a Lego animation of the Iranian military chasing down a US pilot, commentary on Trump’s Truth Social posts, and also reprimanding other Iranian embassies for picking up their memes, in jest.
One post of Iran in SA shows a caricature of a damaged US jet, hobbling on crutches, with the caption: “A minor damage”. Iran has in the last few days claimed to have shot down US aircraft.
A minor damage😎 pic.twitter.com/rIcC5NHZHh
— Iran Embassy SA (@IraninSA) March 30, 2026
The regime change happened successfully.
MAGA😀 pic.twitter.com/R75aFdmSTN
— Iran Embassy SA (@IraninSA) April 3, 2026
Other Iranian embassies joined in the mocking soon after.
Responding to Trump’s 4 April message on Truth Social where he said, “Keep the oil, anyone?”, the Iranian embassy in UK responded: “OK, we have already kept it here in the Persian Gulf”.
OK, we have already kept it here in the Persian Gulf 😎 pic.twitter.com/qLBBSgxbcn
— Iran (I.R.of) Embassy in UK (@Iran_in_UK) April 3, 2026
The African mission joined in: “Keep the oil, anyone?” Or “Clean the mess, anyone?”
“Keep the oil, anyone?”
Or
Clean the mess, anyone?
— Iran Embassy SA (@IraninSA) April 3, 2026
Then there was serious anger too. In response to US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s X post on sending Iran ‘back to the Stone Age’, the Geneva mission wrote: “Threatening to send a nation back to the Stone Age says more about your mindset than your power. The world has moved on—perhaps it’s time you did too.”
Threatening to send a nation back to the Stone Age says more about your mindset than your power. The world has moved on—perhaps it’s time you did too. #StandWithIran
— IRAN in Geneva (@PMIRAN_GENEVA) April 3, 2026
The African mission added: “Stone Age? At a time when you were still in caves searching for fire, we were inscribing human rights on the Cyrus Cylinder. We endured the storm of Alexander and the Mongol invasions and remained; because Iran is not just a country, it is a civilisation.”
Some posts were more solemn.
The American people deserve thoughtful and responsible leadership that does not use taxpayers’ money to serve the interests of a genocidal regime.
Now is the time to take action
— Iran Embassy SA (@IraninSA) April 4, 2026
Did you know the GOT composer is Iranian?
Art is in our blood.
Humanity is indestructible. pic.twitter.com/WmPJedAeVu
— Iran Embassy SA (@IraninSA) April 4, 2026
The Iranian embassy in Sweden shared the lyrics of a song by American band Linkin Park with a picture of an Iranian missile, vowing to take revenge for the 2003 death of American activist Rachel Corrie in Rafah. She was crushed by an Israeli bulldozer.
Then there was art. The Iranian embassy in Thailand joined the fray with a visual flourish, depicting the shooting down of a US jet.
Last month, Iran claimed to have become the first nation in the world to strike a US F-35 Lightning 2, one of the most valuable US aircraft and the backbone of the US’s fifth-generation warfighting capabilities. On Friday, Iran claimed second US F-35 was shot down.
In another post, they put up an image of a Lego character, a US soldier, being chased by the Iran military with the caption: “Currently in Iran”.
ขณะนี้อยู่ในอิหร่าน pic.twitter.com/12c9nAVfxy
— Iran Embassy in Thailand ☫ (@IranInThailand) April 3, 2026
In Nigeria, the embassy turned a jet crash into wordplay: “This wasn’t an F-35… it was American pride that crashed. Read it as: ‘Oooof 35.’”
This wasn’t an F-35… it was American pride that crashed. Read it as: “Oooof 35” 😁✌️ لَا حَوْلَ وَلَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللَّهِ الْعَلِيِّ الْعَظِيمِ pic.twitter.com/Xakg8UQ1T1
— Embassy of I.R.Iran in F.R.Nigeria🇳🇬 (@IranNigeria) April 3, 2026
Even the Iranian mission in Zimbabwe leaned into the humour, posting: “Trump, please talk. We are bored”.
The embassy in Tunisia posted Sunday, and also mocked the “US CHAIR force” a day earlier.
— سفارة إيران في تونس (@IranembTun) April 5, 2026
🇺🇸 CHAIR Force 🪑 pic.twitter.com/roiJKK7QIb
— سفارة إيران في تونس (@IranembTun) April 4, 2026
The meme charge had users sparking a friendly rivalry among Iran’s embassies. When an X user responded to Zimbabwe embassy’s post asking them to compete with the South African mission, it coolly responded: “I don’t play with fire. At most, Trump.”
When another user said, you have to beat South African embassy, “they top 1 so far”, it responded: “On myself? I can’t. Perhaps I should get help from IRGC (Islamic revolutionary Guard Corps). #SEJIL #FATTAH #KHARANSHAHER4” naming Iran’s ballistic missiles.
In response, an X user noted: “Decentralized Meme Defense seems to be activated across Iran Embassies”.
(Edited by Nida Fatima Siddiqui)
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