Following the April 8, 2026 ceasefire, which halted the 40-day-long U.S. and Israeli military operation against the Islamic Republic of Iran, official Iranian regime diplomatic accounts on X have posted a stream of antisemitic content to audiences of millions. In a campaign the New York Times referred to as “information warfare,” spanning at least four embassies across three continents, Iranian missions in Indonesia, South Africa, Tajikistan, and Zimbabwe have published material deploying Holocaust inversion, “Jewish control” conspiracy theories, and Satanic dehumanization, all under the cover of geopolitical satire.
Comparing Netanyahu to Hitler: Classic Holocaust Inversion
On April 15, the X handle of the Islamic Republic's South African Embassy, “Iran Embassy SA” (@IraninSA), posted an image comparing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler with the caption: "Of course, this comparison is an insult to Hitler." By that afternoon, the post had accumulated 1.9 million views.
The same day, the X handle for “Iran Embassy in Indonesia” (@IraninIndonesia) posted an AI-generated image of Netanyahu seated in a train carriage, with Hitler's reflection staring back from the window. The caption read: "Time changes. Crimes don't." That post received 448,000 views.
Declaring Hitler morally superior to a living Jewish leader, or equating Israeli policy with the Nazi genocide of six million Jews, constitutes Holocaust inversion, a form of antisemitism recognized by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) and adopted by the U.S. State Department. The World Jewish Congress has noted that such comparisons trivialize the Holocaust while casting Jews as the successors to their own murderers.
Conspiracy Tropes: Jewish Control, Puppet-Masters and Demonic Possession
Three posts from the X handles, “Iran Embassy in Tajikistan” (@IRANinTJ) and “Iran Embassy in Zimbabwe” (@IRANinZIMBABWE) trafficked in antisemitic conspiracy narratives about hidden Jewish power over American policy.
On April 15, the Tajikistan account posted a meme video depicting Netanyahu physically intimidating Trump, captioned: "Netanyahu to Trump when he wants to pull out of Iran." The visual – a scene from a popular television series in which a dominant, arch villain menacingly threatens a weaker character – encodes the “Jewish Control” trope: the Jewish leader as aggressive puppet-master over the American president.
On April 16, the X handle “Iran Embassy in Zimbabwe” posted a 45-second video showing President Trump presiding over a U.S. military command center, then cutting to reveal that the person leading the meeting was actually Prime Minister Netanyahu wearing a Trump mask. The closing text: "Behind the mask... it was always Israel." The "unmasking" trope of covert Jewish control is a staple of antisemitic conspiracy theory.
On April 14, the Iranian Embassy in Tajikistan also posted an AI-generated video depicting a demonic, tentacled symbiote possessing President Trump, blackmailing him with "tapes" (an allusion to Jeffrey Epstein) and finally consuming him. The caption: "Trump is one of the reasons that proves the existence of the Satan in the world."
The video revives the Islamic Republic’s longstanding rhetorical framework of the U.S. as "Great Satan" and Israel as "Little Satan" while reinforcing antisemitic conspiracy narratives linking Jewish figures to Satanic control of Western leaders.
On April 18, the X handle “Consulate General of I.R. Iran in Mazar-e Sharif” (@IRANinMAZAR) posted a 12-second edit of Disney's Pinocchio in which Geppetto, overlaid with an Israeli flag, yanks the strings of a Pinocchio puppet overlaid with the Stars and Stripes while a cat labeled "MAGA" looks on passively. The clip plays into longstanding antisemitic tropes about Jewish control. Israel as the sinister hand, the United States as the wooden marionette and the American electorate as a mute spectator.
Packaging the claim of covert Jewish control over U.S. foreign policy inside a beloved animation makes the message more shareable and deniable, a technique researchers as have identified across the pro-Iranian information ecosystem.
Part of a Wider Pattern
These posts are not isolated. The Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) has documented two coordinated pro-Iranian regime networks on X (dubbed BRICS4CLICKS and Verified4War) whose content amassed over one billion views in the war’s first month; multiple Iranian embassies amplified their material.
Researchers at ISD separately found that accounts in a pro-regime network shared AI-generated posts depicting Orthodox Jews leading American soldiers to war, according to WIRED. Earlier in April, Iran’s South African Embassy posted (then deleted) an image of a rat in a kippah riding a bald eagle, captioned "Who holds the reins?," imagery with direct roots in Nazi-era propaganda.
None of this is new for the Islamic Republic. ADL has documented the regime's decades-long record of promoting antisemitism, from state-sponsored Holocaust cartoon contests to textbooks saturated with anti-Jewish incitement. What has changed is the delivery mechanism: verified diplomatic accounts, meme culture, and AI-generated video now carry the same hatred to global audiences numbering in the millions.
These are not the social media antics of rogue embassy staffers. They are state-sponsored antisemitism distributed through official channels on a platform that has granted these accounts blue-check verification. When diplomatic missions of a sovereign government compare Jewish leaders to Hitler, depict Jews as satanic puppet-masters and frame Israel as a hidden hand controlling American policy, they are weaponizing the privileges of diplomatic communication to mainstream hate. X and the international community must treat this content as what it is: antisemitic incitement with a government seal.