Those who pass the gigantic corner billboard in Enghelab Square in central Tehran are used to seeing political symbols and sometimes the faces of political leaders.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The figure\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
Threatening imagery in Enghelab Square is nothing new: In January, the billboard depicted a strike on an American warship<\/a>, leaving a bloody wake resembling the stripes of the U.S. flag.<\/p>\n In recent weeks, vengeance on behalf of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran\u2019s former supreme leader, and others has been a repeated theme in Iranian propaganda. But it has rarely taken such a lurid form.<\/p>\n White graffiti splattered across the coffin includes the words \u201cWe Will Kill Trump\u201d in both Persian and English. The style of the writing recalled a blackboard wall where mourners could write chalk messages during the memorial ceremonies for Ayatollah Khamenei<\/a>, who was killed as the war began on Feb. 28. The billboard\u2019s graffiti refers to him as a martyr.<\/p>\n The graffiti also says \u201cIn memory of Minab\u2019s children,\u201d referring to the city in southern Iran where a strike hit an elementary school on Feb. 28. That attack came at the same time as one on a nearby Iranian naval base<\/a>; in March, U.S. officials said the preliminary results of an investigation indicated that an American targeting error was the cause<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Those who pass the gigantic corner billboard in Enghelab Square in central Tehran are used to seeing political…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[3700,4064,34,90,12112,69,3050,392],"class_list":["post-228635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tehran","tag-ali","tag-donald-j","tag-iran","tag-khamenei","tag-propaganda","tag-tehran","tag-tehran-iran","tag-trump"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117006623481064777","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}