Responding to Khamenei calling the Jewish state a “malignant cancerous tumor… that has to be removed and eradicated,” Israel’s Embassy in the United Stated fired back on Twitter with a mocking gif from the 2004 movie “Mean Girls,” featuring the main character Regina George [actress Rachel McAdams], asking, “Why are you so obsessed with me?”
The Twitter spat has gone viral in an instant, with many users noticing the level of digital diplomacy…
In the meantime, there were those who suggested that future wars be waged with the use of gifs and memes, albeit even these will also have certain ramifications…
Some, however, approved of the extraordinary response to Khamenei’s critical tweet, saying it is beyond epic…
…while fellow netizens reminded others that the Mean Girls were the actual bullies in the movie:
Khamenei has previously labeled Israel as a “barbaric, wolflike & infanticidal regime, which spares no crime” and “has no cure but to be annhiliated [sic].”
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