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Iran unveiled a massive billboard and banners pledging to kill U.S. President Donald Trump in Tehran on Tuesday. The display came as crowds in the city also staged anti-U.S. and anti-Israel marches the same day.
“We will kill Trump,” read the billboard towering over the busy Enghelab Square in Tehran, which depicted the U.S. president behind bars with his head bowed.
New designs of billboards and displays mocking and vowing revenge against Trump have frequently been set up around Tehran since the war began on Feb. 28, when U.S.-Israeli strikes killed the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
In recent days, renewed diplomatic efforts have been underway to bring Tehran and Washington to the negotiating table to prevent a resumption of fighting which has spread across the region and driven prices up globally.
Trump, who faces crucial U.S. midterm elections amid voter discontent driven in part by the Iran war, has said that a deal “could happen.”
At one of the marches, a protester held up a placard showing a caricature of Trump in a sniper’s crosshairs, with the words “We kill Trump” and “There will be blood.”
Behind the crowd, a giant banner depicted U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff, Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. Vice President JD Vance bloodied in torn suits, their heads bowed before burned U.S. and Israeli flags.
Tehran accuses Trump of deliberately targeting civilian sites during the war, including a school and a wedding ceremony, killing dozens of people, including women and children.
State-sponsored billboards and murals have been a fixture of Iran’s public spaces since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. They are used to honor allies, celebrate military figures and send political messages to adversaries, particularly the United States and Israel.
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