This comes after Trump threatened to destroy Iran in his speech at the UNGA 2026, while also reiterating that a major decision had been made on the course of the nearly seven-month-long war in the Gulf.

This comes after Trump threatened to destroy Iran in his speech at the UNGA 2026, while also reiterating that a major decision had been made on the course of the nearly seven-month-long war in the Gulf.

This comes after Trump threatened to destroy Iran in his speech at the UNGA 2026, while also reiterating that a major decision had been made on the course of the nearly seven-month-long war in the Gulf.

The Iran Embassy in Zimbabwe on Wednesday took the filmy route to troll US President Donald Trump, using a clip from Telugu star Nandamuri Balakrishna's film.

"Trump talks about annihilating Iran. But he knows Iran is not defenseless. Since we informed they have recently been watching Bollywood instead of Hollywood," it wrote in an X post on Wednesday, alongside the clip.

However, the clip is from a Tollywood film, and not Bollywood, like the post says.

The 58-second clip from the Telugu action film Bhagavanth Kesari sees the actor hold up what looks like a manhole cover, as the lone shield against a number of people firing against him, while sitting on a chair.

After the firing stops, he mounts a gun, but does not use it, instead launching large gas cylinders at the people on the opposite end.

This comes after Trump's threats to destroy Iran in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly 2026, while also reiterating that a major decision had been made on the course of the war in the Gulf, which began nearly seven months ago.

As he had done before the UNGA 2026 and countless other times in the rhetoric war between Iran and the US, he had warned that he was faced with two options—"annihilating the Islamic Republic and doing it quickly" versus "driving them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations".

Iran, however, has rejected Trump's claims that it was a terrorist state, with President Masoud Pezeshkian's fiery UNGA speech lashing out at the damage that the US and Israel had wrought on Tehran amid the war, and reiterating that Iran would never "never bow our head or bend at the knee".

As he defended Iran being a victim—rather than a perpetrator—of terrorism, the US delegation walked out of the hall in protest.

"I come from an Iran where, in truth, they bombed a school. You see these children? These children perished under bombs with weapons used by the US and Israel They were innocent and had committed no crimes," he said, also holding up images of the victims of the Minab school attack.

Notably, this is not the first time that Iran has used Indian film references to troll the US, with its Tunisian embassy mocking the capture of a US underwater drone by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

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"Lost an underwater [drone]. Oil is nearing $100. Elections are coming. How’s it going, Trump?" read the post, accompanied by an Akshay Kumar meme based on his famous 'fake-crying' scene.

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