{"id":78247,"date":"2026-05-08T21:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T21:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/78247\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T21:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T21:44:11","slug":"propaganda-war-the-gen-z-team-behind-irans-hit-anti-trump-videos-the-observers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/78247\/","title":{"rendered":"Propaganda war: The Gen Z team behind Iran\u2019s hit anti-Trump videos &#8211; The Observers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                                                Satirical Lego animations depicting US President Donald Trump as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s puppet while casting Iran as the defender of the oppressed mark the latest propaganda coup for the Iranian regime in its war with the US. The FRANCE 24 Observers team spoke to one of the young Iranians behind the videos.                    <\/p>\n<p>From being portrayed as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/israel-s-netanyahu-says-he-agrees-to-a-10-day-ceasefire-in-lebanon\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a>\u2019s puppet to being shown entangled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tv-shows\/press-review\/20260507-time-to-say-goodbye-judge-releases-epstein-s-alleged-suicide-note\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in the Epstein affair<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> has become the star of a series of satirical Lego animations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Posted by Iranian officials and embassies, these videos have been a worldwide hit\u00a0\u2013 marking a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/propaganda\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">propaganda<\/a> coup for the Iranian regime in its war with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The group that first created the videos calls itself Explosive Media. Our team spoke with their spokesman:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re a group of friends. Most of us are students\u00a0\u2013 or recently graduated. We\u2019re between 19 and 25. We listen to a wide range of music\u00a0\u2013 rap, pop.<\/p>\n<p>We write our own rap lyrics. But when it comes to the final track\u00a0\u2013 the singing voice \u2013 that part is generated using AI.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The videos portray <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/iran\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Iran<\/a> as acting in self-defence and as the defender of people oppressed by the US around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The group told FRANCE 24 they do not take orders from the Iranian regime. We were not able to confirm this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re independent. But even if people call it propaganda, does that really matter?\u00a0 What matters is whether American people believe us.<\/p>\n<p>Whether they connect with what we\u2019re saying. Because we see ourselves as speaking the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  \u2018They don\u2019t limit their religious acts to just reading the Quran or praying\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>So how is it that young conservative Iranians who support the regime have adopted the codes of Generation Z?\u00a0 We put that question to Iranian journalist Ali Pourtabatabaei:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom my perspective, this is not unusual. This is because the same tools and resources available worldwide for creating such animations have also been accessible in Iran. At the same time, rap has become very popular among Iranian youth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It might be hard for people outside Iran to understand how young religious Iranians are aware of these possibilities and how to use them. Perhaps it\u2019s because there are stereotypes about them.<\/p>\n<p>They have interests and skills that go far beyond what we imagine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They don\u2019t limit their religious acts to just reading the Quran or praying. Making these kinds of videos and music can also be considered a religious act.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Satirical Lego animations depicting US President Donald Trump as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s puppet while casting Iran&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6050],"tags":[184,2271,4248,6051,4174,41779],"class_list":{"0":"post-78247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lego","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-lego","11":"tag-lego-group","12":"tag-middle-east","13":"tag-the-observers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116541146169513079","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}