New Delhi, April 18 -- In previous decades, propaganda for murderous Middle Eastern regimes tended to be unpersuasive. As American forces rolled into the Iraqi capital in 2003, Saddam Hussein's information minister, Muhammad Saeed al-Sahaf, stood on a roof and claimed that "Baghdad is safe.the infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gate." He added that God was "grilling their stomachs in hell". Behind him, television audiences could see Iraqi soldiers fleeing for their lives.

In today's Gulf war, astonishingly, a murderous dictatorship appears to be winning the propaganda battle against the land of the free and the home of Hollywood. Day after day, a team backing Iran's theocratic regime releases videos, made with ai, tha...