A giant billboard threatening US President Donald Trump has been unveiled in Tehran, Iran, alongside other banners carrying similar messages across the country’s capital.
The billboard, displayed at Enghelab Square on Tuesday, depicts Trump behind bars with his head bowed and carries a message threatening to kill him.
The display marks a further escalation in anti-Trump rhetoric in Tehran, where billboards mocking the US president and calling for revenge have become increasingly common since the war began on February 28.
The conflict began with US-Israeli strikes that killed Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The latest displays emerged amid renewed diplomatic efforts to bring Tehran and Washington to the negotiating table and prevent further escalation of a conflict that has spread across the region and contributed to rising global prices.
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Trump, whose Republican Party faces crucial US midterm elections on Tuesday, has expressed optimism about the possibility of a deal with Iran, saying an agreement “could happen”.
However, the war has fuelled voter dissatisfaction in the United States ahead of the elections.
In another anti-Trump display at Tajrish Square in northern Tehran, an open-air exhibition featured paintings attacking the US president, including violent images portraying him as injured and humiliated.
One of the paintings showed a bomb covering Trump’s face, apparently referencing Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte’s 1964 work, The Son of Man.
A life-sized replica of a prison cell also remained on display nearby, with an actor impersonating Trump spending the day inside. A screen beside the installation showed images of destruction caused by US strikes on Iran.
Tehran has accused Trump of deliberately targeting civilian sites during the war, including a school and a wedding ceremony, killing dozens of people, among them women and children. The allegations have not been independently verified.
State-sponsored billboards and murals have been a prominent feature of Iran’s public spaces since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. They are regularly used to commemorate allies, honour military figures and communicate political messages, particularly those directed at the United States and Israel.
