Amid rising anti-government protests in Iran, social media platform X (formerly ) has reportedly made a symbolic but politically loaded change: replacing the Islamic Republic’s official flag emblem with the pre-revolutionary Lion-and-Sun symbol. Elon Musk’s social networking site X appears to have changed Iran’s flag emoji to a pre-revolution version, according to multiple media reports. Several users were seen using the pre-revolution version of the Iranian flag as they thanked Elon Musk and X for the change. Furthermore, accounts belonging to Iranian officials and linked to the state also displayed the pre-revolutionary flag.
