Pinkwashing

In recent weeks, Iranian state media and regime-linked channels began showcasing pink-painted guns, drones, and even missiles, often alongside staged scenes of women holding weapons in propaganda events.

Analysts say the campaign is designed to soften the image of militarization and attract new support, especially among women, by turning instruments of violence into something visually harmless or even “playful.”

But beneath the color, nothing has changed, the same system, the same repression, just repackaged in pink.