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Tehran has launched a coordinated digital influence campaign on Western social media — centered on X — designed to discredit President Donald Trump's nuclear deal and exploit political divisions inside the United States, counterterrorism experts warned Sunday.
The operation, analysts say, accelerated after Trump signed a peace agreement in Versailles on June 17 and follows February U.S. strikes that killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Feb.
Leaderless Regime Moves Legitimacy Contest Online With Khamenei's successor, Mojtaba Khamenei, in hiding and Iran's senior leadership largely eliminated, the regime has redirected its power projection onto social platforms, according to Dr.
Omar Mohammed of the George Washington Program on Extremism. "Iran's leadership now lives on X because it is a decapitated leadership," Mohammed told Fox News Digital.
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