Iran's AI Propaganda Borrows the Aesthetic Language of the Enemy

The strategic innovation in Iran's current campaign is not generative AI — it is the decision to deploy AI toward aesthetic mimicry rather than deception. Disinformation expert Nina Jankowicz argues Iran is winning this propaganda war not because its content is convincing but because it is native: Lego Trump walking in the rain from the Hormuz Strait reads as satire to the same audiences who share MAGA memes unironically. The format collapse — where Iranian state messaging and domestic American irony culture are indistinguishable at a glance — is the…