If Iran could manufacture destructive missiles at the speed with which it produces cutting memes, US Central Command would be coming out with its hands up by now. One of the more bizarre and unexpected aspects of the Iran-US war is that Iran, a country by reputation dominated by conservative clerics neuralgic about western culture and media, is dominating the social media war, unleashing its Gen Z tech warriors to engage western audiences with its sarcasm and ridicule of the Trump administration.Iran’s social media performance, ranging from embassies’ social media feeds to the speaker of parliament, Mohammad Qalibaf, is all the more surprising since most Iranians are raging at more than four weeks of digital darkness, the longest government-induced internet blackout in the world. Do you think that Iran has the smartest people ?

