New Delhi, April 8 -- Iran has sparked widespread reactions online after posting a provocative AI-generated photo of Donald Trump. The Iranian Embassy in India shared the image on X, showing the US president kneeling before an ancient Persian king mounted on horseback. The monarch is holding the Iranian flag. The caption simply read: "Bow down to the Iranian civilisation".

The post, shared at 8:02 AM on 8 April, has already clocked over 4,38,000 views within 4 hours of going live. The timing was anything but accidental.

Just a day earlier, on 7 April, Donald Trump posted a dramatic message on Truth Social, warning that "

a whole civilisation will die tonight, never to be brought back again". He said that, if Iran missed his deadline to...