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‘Revenge is inevitable’: Iran ramps up propaganda war with violent billboards
State-backed billboards now show Trump in a casket and a burning White House as Iran’s anti-U.S. messaging grows more aggressive, officials and photojournalists say.
The billboards are state-sponsored, plastered across Iran’s capital and far from subtle. One features an image of President Donald Trump lying in a casket; another shows the White House on fire; a third is a parody of the American flag with skulls in place of the stars and bombs dropping from the stripes. Alongside ads for a multitude of products such as cars and shampoo, the giant billboards have become familiar sights to the people of Tehran i…
Huge billboards have been a fixture in the Iranian capital for years. The authorities use them both to promote their own policies and to attack opponents of the Islamic Republic. However, since the outbreak of the war with the United States and Israel, their message has become significantly more aggressive. One billboard, erected near Enghelab Square in central Tehran, depicts US President Donald Trump as dead, lying in a coffin with his hands f…