On the same day that General Qassem Soleimani's funeral took place in the streets of Ahvaz, Iran, thousands of pro-Iranian Instagram accounts that placed a tag bearing the family name of US President Donald Trump appeared to publish pictures bearing the Iranian flag or Trump's head using these tags.

Anyone who has an Instagram account can place a specific tag so that the images that fall under this tag are shown when searched for by users.

For example, when creating a tag for Trump and placing this tag on a picture of the American president, Instagram users who search for images related to Trump will find these pictures under this tag.

Ivanka and Melania Trump's accounts on Instagram were the main focus of the campaign, but the accounts of Junior, Lara Trump and Trump and Trump Company also did not receive from targeting some of the thirty thousand number of posts, according to the analysis of the Zafid News website.

One of the most targeted accounts in pro-Iranian posts was the Ivanka account, which reached almost 250 times in less than 24 hours.

"The campaign is intense and flexible," said Cindy Otis, a former CIA officer, but stressed that it was "limited harm and just an attempt to intimidate." She is also the author of True or False, which is an agency's guide to discovering fake news.

Many of the posts that used the Trump family's badges were marked by Iranian flags and pictures of Soleimani, and the tag was associated with a phrase in Persian meaning "difficult revenge."

Other publications were more threatening coffins wrapped in a U.S. flag, and headless Trump images, or T-shaped (symbolizing American officers who came vertically and will return horizontally, in reference to Hassan Nasrallah's sentence that American soldiers who came to the region on their legs will return In coffins).

Facebook: Unusual Instagram tags on public figures during major world events (Getty Images)

BuzzFeed has collected data on more than 28,000 photos and videos, and tagged it in one of the Trump family's accounts for the past five days.

The number of leaflets increased on Sunday January 5, the day of the funeral procession of the commander of the Quds Force. The sharp increase and decrease in activity indicates that it was a coordinated campaign.

"Putting badges on public figures on Instagram is not unusual during major world events," said a spokesman for Facebook, the owner of the Instagram app. "We will take appropriate action if we find any content that violates company policies, the US penal code, or is the product of unreal behavior," he added.

Harassment Facebook publishing policies indicate that the company "will eliminate severe attacks as well as some attacks where the public tag is directly identified in the post or comment."

The site focused on uploaded posts from January 5 until mid-afternoon the next day, which is the time of the Soleimani funeral. And it turns out that most of them (28,000 or about 70%) came from users who tagged members of the Trump family in at least one post during this time period. Another 25% of users who tagged members of the Trump family came in two posts, to ten posts.

"Since last week’s strike, the Iranians have demonstrated their capabilities to use a wide range of different attacks, from missile strikes, electronic attacks and attempts to manipulate information provided to the international community to their capabilities through information gathering operations," Otis said.

Photo attacks bearing the Trump family's stigma are not the only sign of coordinated activity on Instagram. Karan Kanishk, a researcher at the Atlantic Council's digital forensics lab, noticed a series of pro-Iranian publications on Instagram and Twitter bearing the White House mark on the day Soleimani was killed.