India, Feb. 28 -- When news of Israeli-American joint attacks on Iran began circulating on Saturday, many users of X did not race to the latest headlines. They raced to the archives. Within hours, decade-old posts by Donald Trump - in which he repeatedly warned that then-President Barack Obama would "manufacture" a war with Iran to boost his re-election prospects - resurfaced en masse.

There were thousands of fresh replies, quote-posts, and some pointed comparisons to the current moment of violent irony.

Iran's foreign affairs minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi also pulled out an old Trump 'tweet' that said Obama would start a war to divert from his domestic political performance.

Araghchi wrote: "(Israel PM Benjamin) Netanyahu and Trump's ...