By Ioana Mate, Middle East analyst and international law attorney

Iranian psychological warfare on social media and the strategic blindness of the West

When Lego-style social media videos become a weapon in psychological warfare

There comes a moment when an analyst must acknowledge that their conceptual tools are no longer sufficient to describe the reality they are observing. The Lego-style animations produced by the Iranian media entity Explosive Media — American warships exploding in colored plastic, Israeli aircraft turned into falling horses, figurine soldiers storming beaches under pixelated flags — represent one of those moments.