America’s poster-in-chief has a new challenger.
While most Iranians are barred from the internet, one of the country’s rising hard-line figures is using social media to take on President Donald Trump.
Parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, 64, is adopting an increasingly Trumpian approach to wartime communication, posting English-language snark and memes in an apparent attempt to counter the U.S. president’s influence on news coverage and financial markets.
A decade and a half younger than Trump, Ghalibaf favors a snappier, less all-caps style than the president, who has posted a staggering 6,800 Truth Social messages in the past year.
It comes during a wider push by Iran and its supporters in a growing information war, flooding the internet with memes and AI-generated content faking attacks on American bases. State media has even got in on the act, taunting Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Heads-up,” Ghalibaf told his almost half-million followers Sunday on X.
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