How Iran Won the Internet with Memes While Losing the War with Blaise Misztal
America won the war against Iran on the ground and lost it on the screen. Iran's axis of resistance has collapsed, its proxies are spent, its nuclear program is set back, yet Tehran got the Western internet to laugh along with an AI-generated Lego video that turned its mullahs into cuddly action figures and made American leadership look ineffectual. Tens of millions watched. We called it a meme. They ran it as a campaign.Blaise Misztal has spent two decades on Iran, from the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee to running policy at JINSA, where he built the case for a regime-collapse…
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