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An official Iranian social media account labeled California a “new territory” of Iran on Tuesday in response to US President Donald Trump posting an image portraying the Strait of Hormuz as “NEW U.S. Territory,”

Trump shared the image on his Truth Social account Tuesday, showing a map of the Strait of Hormuz with the strategic waterway circled beneath the words “NEW U.S. Territory,” following up on his earlier remarks saying the strait would be made US territory after the war ends.

The White House later reposted Trump’s post on its official account on US social media platform X.

In response, the official Iran in Hyderabad account on X posted a map of the US showing California highlighted in blue, with the words: “NEW TERRITORY OF ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN.”

Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister, also hit back at Trump’s post, writing on X: “His delusion regarding the Strait of Hormuz will soon either be corrected, or we will correct the delusions of this delusional man.”

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[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

later, from the white house: "we have settled, again, with the great islamic republic of iran. america is victorious! we have deeded to iran not only california, but oregon and washington state, too. in exchange, we have received three barrels of algae-laced seawater for the small sum of $500 billion".

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

If they gave cascadia to Canada I'd be so happy

[–] orc_princess@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"PRESIDENT DONALD J TRUMP."

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

Praise be to Buddha, thank you for your attention.

[–] Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Has someone pointed out that they picked a blue state because all the red states are even shittier places to live than Iran?

[–] 20cello@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Lmao, that would be humiliating for trump if he only could understand it

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Calling it the Gulf of Iran after the whole fiasco with Mexico would have been pretty on point in terms of joke. Missed opportunity.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Swemg@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gary Newson could do something really funny now

[–] EmmiLime@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

He's too busy destroying homeless camps with glee

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

Liberals are selling our country to the enemy!!! guts-rage

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Just to give a perspective on how stupid US military being in middle east is.

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i still don't understand why it is so common for journalists to write a whole article about a single tweet and not link to it.

it's here btw: https://xcancel.com/IraninHyderabad/status/2089703793915199991

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

The tweet does look more hillarious than the article

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Nation states fighting over parts of the same planet we were all born on is cringe. Humanity is like a toddler that just learned the word "mine".

And yes, I do privately own a toothbrush.

[–] Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that Iran is trolling trump. They're trolling him instead of, you know, bombing their civilians to death, like what the US is doing to them.

[–] arotrios@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Dammit. I look like shit in a hijab.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

We could wear a wig over the hijab. /j