How pro-Iran groups use LEGO animations as a propaganda tool
The World
PRX
4.6 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
AI-generated LEGO videos have become one of the most unexpected propaganda tools in the current Iran war. The clips use humor, memes and video-game-style animation to mock global leaders, while pushing pro-Iran narratives online. Also, residents flee north as Israel strikes Lebanon, including the historic city of Tyre. And, Brazil’s government plans to invest $75 million to pave and improve a highway running through a largely untouched section of the Amazon. Plus, a conversation with Cheikh Ibra Fam, a Senegalese musician who says the choirs he joined while traveling with his family as a child became his classrooms.
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| 0:00.0 | Comprehensive. |
| 0:02.0 | Witty. |
| 0:02.6 | Speculative. |
| 0:03.3 | Critical. |
| 0:04.0 | Insightful. |
| 0:04.8 | Profound. |
| 0:05.6 | Wide-ranging. |
| 0:06.5 | Hopefully doesn't take itself too, too seriously. |
| 0:09.2 | I'm David Remnick, and each week on the New Yorker Radio Hour, my colleagues and I try to make sense of what's happening in this chaotic world. |
| 0:17.2 | I hope you'll join us for the New Yorker Radio Hour wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:22.1 | The thoughtful, exquisite, just, you know, real. |
| 0:29.9 | They remind us of play and childhood, but Legos are now being used to evoke something darker. |
| 0:40.9 | Your brain, when you see Legos, categorizes that as entertainment before you've had any ability to put a critical thought into engaging with the actual content. |
| 0:50.7 | I'm Carolyn Beeler, the Battle for Hearts and Mines in the Iran War. |
| 0:55.3 | Also ahead, the mother of an Israeli hostage killed by Hamas tells her family's story. |
| 1:00.2 | On day 3.30, we got the news that he had been executed and we got his body back in a bag |
| 1:07.4 | with six bullet holes. |
| 1:09.5 | And the Israeli army has been attacking Lebanon's coastal city of Tyre. |
| 1:13.2 | People fear for their lives and their history. |
| 1:15.9 | In Tyre, we have two big main archaeological site in the city and an ancient town |
| 1:20.4 | has a historical fabric. |
| 1:21.9 | It is a world heritage city in Lebanon. |
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