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Iran Sends Grim Message With Massive Billboard Featuring Trump

A billboard in Iran showed the president in a coffin.

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With hostilities once again rising between the U.S. and Iran, a billboard has appeared in the Iranian capital, depicting President Donald Trump in a coffin.

According to the New York Times, the mural appeared at Enghelab Square in central Tehran, which often hosts political messages, including one recently of a strike on an American warship.

“The figure who appeared there in images shared by international news agencies on Wednesday was President Trump, his body peeking out from an open black coffin,” the Times report said. “The figure’s eyes and mouth are closed and its hair is disheveled. Also visible are hands resting on a red tie atop a protruding stomach; at the far end of the coffin, feet point straight up.”

Graffiti on the billboard, the Times said, includes the phrase “We Will Kill Trump,” in both English and Farsi. It also states “In memory of Minab’s children,” in reference to the strike on a girls’ school in the early days of the war.

This followed an incident earlier this month, when at least one effigy of Trump appeared, as the coffin of  Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader, was killed during a strike early in the war, was marched through Tehran.

Social media users had various reactions to the billboard’s appearance:

Photo courtesy of an X screenshot. 

 

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Stephen Silver is an award-winning journalist, essayist and film critic, and contributor to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Broad Street Review and Splice Today. The co-founder of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, Stephen lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife and two sons. Stephen has authored thousands of articles that focus on politics, technology, and the economy.

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