TEHRAN: While Iran continues to respond to military attacks by the United States and Israel with missiles and drones, it has also launched a propaganda campaign featuring a Lego-style animated video that portrays toy versions of Donald Trump, bombs, and fighter aircraft.
The animated clip was produced by the state-run Revayat-e Fath institute and aired on Iranian state television following the February 28 attacks by the United States and Israel that killed Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei and intensified the conflict in the Middle East.
Since its release, the two-minute animation has circulated widely on social media platforms owned by Meta Platforms as well as on X, attracting tens of thousands of likes and shares.
The video contains no dialogue, suggesting it was created to reach audiences globally during a conflict that has unsettled energy and financial markets while also dividing international public opinion.
The animation begins with Lego-style figures representing US President Trump standing alongside Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu and a depiction of the devil. They are shown looking through an album labeled the “Epstein file.”
In the scene, an angry Trump presses a red button to initiate the war. A missile is then launched through the clouds and strikes a location resembling a classroom, where toy figures portraying girls wearing pink headscarves are seated while listening to their teacher.
The teacher writes the phrase “My homeland is my life” on the board before the screen fades to black. The following scene shows the aftermath of the strike, with a pink backpack and a pair of pink shoes lying among the rubble.
A Lego-style Iranian officer then appears, picks up the bag, and begins to cry before his sorrow shifts into anger.
Iranian authorities have claimed that the United States and Israel carried out a strike on a school in Minab in southern Iran on the first day of the conflict.
However, the site has not been independently accessed to verify the incident, and the number of casualties has not been confirmed through independent sources.
Later in the animation, accompanied by a nationalist soundtrack, figures representing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are shown retaliating by targeting US interests and Israeli positions across the region.
The video concludes with a message stating that it was produced in memory of students killed in the attack, described as martyrs who died “at the hands of Zionist and American terrorists.”
