Trump: Iran Spreading AI Disinformation

The U.S. president said Tehran was spreading fake footage of attacks and rallies to artificially inflate the regime’s standing amid the war.

A girl watches a televised statement by Iran's new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei on a mobile phone on March 12, 2026. AFP via Getty Images

U.S. President Donald Trump said on March 15 that Tehran is using artificial intelligence (AI) as a “disinformation weapon” in the ongoing war between Iran and the United States and Israel.

“They said they attacked the USS Abraham Lincoln, one of the largest ships in the world, an aircraft carrier, and they show pictures of it burning. It was never attacked. It was never burning,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One.