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Source: https://lennybendavid.substack.com/p/irans-ayatollah-khamenei-talks-to
Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei Talks to You in Pictures
(Substack) Lenny Ben-David - Many elaborate propaganda posters coming from Ayatollah Khamenei's office express the regime's most bellicose aspirations and appear prominently on billboards at Tehran's busiest intersections. One shows the sinking of the White House and Capitol into the ocean - in the same way as the Titanic. Another honors students on American campuses who were clamoring for the destruction of Israel, seven months after Hamas invaded Israel and the massacre of 1,200 Israelis. A poster labeled "Reality of the West" shows an American gangster manipulating four puppets on strings, with the caption: "The reality of Western powers is a mafia. At the top of this mafia stand the prominent Zionist merchants, and the politicians that obey them. The U.S. is their showcase, and they're spread out everywhere." Another shows five Israeli leaders as mafia bosses, titled "Gang of terrorists," with the caption: "The Zionist regime is not a government. They're a gang of murderers." The destruction of U.S. and Israeli fleets is depicted on a billboard in Tehran's busiest intersection, titled: "We drowned them all." A new poster depicts a Houthi dagger destroying an Israeli ship, with the caption: "What the people of Yemen and the Houthi government did in support of the people of Gaza is truly commendable." The June war with Israel is represented by an enormous army boot crushing an Israeli city, accompanied by heavy rocket fire, captioned: "The Zionist regime was practically knocked out and crushed under the blows of the Islamic Republic." Another, titled: "Brought to Ruins," shows a skull with a Jewish star on its forehead, with rockets destroying an Israeli city in the background. Interlocutors with Iran should be forced to view this Iranian artwork before they sit down with representatives of the Ayatollah regime. The writer, former Deputy Chief of Mission at Israel's Embassy in Washington, is a Research and Diplomacy Fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs.