According to Al Jazeera, Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf used a reference from the science fiction classic The Matrix to convey a message to the United States. Ghalibaf wrote on X, under a picture of Morpheus holding different options, “Ten pills, all bad. No red, no blue. All soot. You don’t have to take any but if you do, you will take all. Break the manufactured matrix. Leave.”