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cbabe

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Sun May 3, 2026, 11:13 AM 1 hr ago

'I Don't Hate the Americans': Latest Lego Video Promotes Empathy Between People of US and Iran

https://www.commondreams.org/news/lego-video-iran-war

‘I Don’t Hate the Americans’: Latest Lego Video Promotes Empathy Between People of US and Iran

‘Love for the people, but the system must cease... From Tehran to DC, we’re screaming for peace.”

JON QUEALLY
May 02, 2026

The creative team behind many of the viral sensations featuring Lego characters and storytelling critical of the war launched by US-Israeli forces against Iran two months ago, posted a new video on Saturday that seeks to forge solidarity between everyday Iranians and Americans suffering from the conflict, and who desperately want to see the fighting brought to an end.



With the video—featuring dramatic scenes from daily life in both Iran and the United States under the shadow of war—the makers behind it, said Parsi, “are doubling down on building bridges between Americans and Iranians while depicting the US government and ‘system’ as the real enemy.”

Touching on themes of shared empathy between people and a political system in the US that insulates the people in power, like US President Donald Trump and lawmakers in Congress, from the will of the voters, the chorus of the song states, “Same sun rising, but we’re living in hell; While the leaders are ringing the funeral bell.”

‘Love for the people, but the system must cease,“ the chorus continues, ”From Tehran to DC, we’re screaming for peace.“

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Iran’s Latest Viral AI Lego Video Targets Americans — “We Don’t Hate You, But Your Leaders...”

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'I Don't Hate the Americans': Latest Lego Video Promotes Empathy Between People of US and Iran (Original Post) cbabe 1 hr ago OP
WHICH "creative team"? The only one I saw clearly identified - and later banned from YouTube, according highplainsdem 1 hr ago #1
Quick search for: Lego Iran creators cbabe 55 min ago #3
Be more convincing if there was less chanting "Death to America!" at all govt rallys IMO EX500rider 56 min ago #2

highplainsdem

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1. WHICH "creative team"? The only one I saw clearly identified - and later banned from YouTube, according
Sun May 3, 2026, 11:38 AM
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to what I read - was working with the Iranian government and was against the pro-democracy protesters in Iran.

Iran's government has blocked the internet so effectively that it's very unlikely any Iranian group posting videos isn't doing so with the full support of that government.

cbabe

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3. Quick search for: Lego Iran creators
Sun May 3, 2026, 12:03 PM
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YouTube bans viral pro-Iran AI-generated LEGO videos trolling Trump • FRANCE 24 English

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/17/vengeance-for-all-how-irans-lego-videos-won-narrative-war-against-trump

‘Vengeance for all’: How Iran’s Lego videos won narrative war against Trump

By Alia Chughtai
Published On 17 Apr 2026

It’s a Lego set, with a difference.

A Native American chief rides on his horse onto a barren landscape, bathed in moonlight. The animated video rapidly shuttles between a range of people who’ve been victims of the United States government, from Black Americans in chains to survivors of Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison complex.



The March 29 video is one of many released by Explosive Media, among several Iran-based groups that have used the Lego figures and blocks that households around the world are familiar with to script a viral social media trend, bolstering Tehran’s narrative amid the war against the US and Israel.

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Viral pro-Iran AI memes blur lines between propaganda and ... - MSN
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EX500rider

(12,674 posts)
2. Be more convincing if there was less chanting "Death to America!" at all govt rallys IMO
Sun May 3, 2026, 12:02 PM
56 min ago
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