A recent mural in Tehran portrays an American aircraft carrier carrying rows of coffins draped in American flags, surrounded by small boats flying the Iranian flag and a helicopter. In another mural, a man raises his arms with an Iranian flag armband, forming a heart shape with his hands, facing missile fire. Elsewhere, the Iranian flag flies on a wall with a missile at its emblem’s center, while a young woman holds a banner saying “we all came for the revolution,” referring to the support for the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
An iconography is also centered around Iranian leaders and weaponry. One mural depicts religious leaders in Iran’s history, from the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ruhollah Khomeini, to Ali Khamenei, present during the first strikes of the war on February 28, and his successor and son, Mojtaba Khamenei. In other works, Iranian drones are shown shattering the Star of David, and protesters chant “death to America.”
The most striking and oldest anti-American murals surround the former US embassy in central Tehran, now converted into a museum known as the “den of spies.” One mural sketches a statue of Liberty with a broken arm amidst scenes of destruction, another showing an American flag with stars replaced by skulls.
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