Huge billboard unveiled in Tehran, 'we will kill Trump'

Tehran has unveiled a huge billboard threatening Donald Trump with death, taking its anti-American rhetoric to a new level.

"We will kill Trump", proclaims the billboard, which dominates the busy Enghelab ('Revolution') square: it shows the president of the United States, facing the most difficult midterms of his mandate today, behind bars, with his head bowed. Another nearby billboard shows him with Vice President J.D. Vance, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with bloodied faces and torn clothes, in front of tattered Israeli and American flags. Dozens of people gathered in the square waving red flags and carrying banners reading: "There will be blood." They therefore called for revenge for Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who was killed by US-Israeli air raids on Tehran on February 28, an event that started the war in the Middle East.

Since the conflict began, posters and billboards mocking Trump and vowing revenge have appeared frequently across Tehran. In the lively Tajrish Square, north of the capital, an open-air exhibition displayed paintings of this type, including one that depicted him lying on the ground, his bloody face crushed by a foot. Another showed a bomb obscuring his face, an apparent reference to the 1964 painting 'Son of Man' by Belgian surrealist René Magritte.