New Delhi: A mock art installation in Tehran’s Tajrish Square depicts a live performer impersonating US President Donald Trump behind bars.
A billboard-style display overlooking the busy northern Tehran intersection featured a prison cell protruding from the structure. Inside, an actor wearing a realistic Trump mask, dark suit, and his signature red tie, paced the confined space with his hands in his pockets, looking around and thinking to himself, occasionally sitting on the simple bed.
“It is a crime not to see this scene,” the billboard reads.
The display forms part of a broader state-backed visual campaign as the strained relations between Washington and Tehran worsen.
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War crime for Iran, mistake for US
According to Turkish outlet Haberler, the symbolic prison also included statements recalling the US attacks on the Shajareh Tayyiba School in Minab and the attacks on a wedding hall in Sirik.
The school strike reportedly occurred on 28 February, the first day of the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran. US Tomahawk missiles hit the elementary school in Minab, Hormozgan Province, which was located near an IRGC naval facility.
Iranian authorities reported around 156 to 175 people killed, including roughly 120 to 168 children and students along with teachers and parents.
Preliminary US military investigations, reported by Bloomberg, attributed the strike to outdated intelligence, satellite imagery and over-reliance on AI targeting data.
“Mistakes are made, war is nasty,” the US President had then said. “Nobody did that on purpose.”
The Sirik attack took place on the night of 1 September in Kuhestak, Sirik County. During US strikes on IRGC air-defence and communications targets near the Strait of Hormuz, a munition struck a residential house where a family wedding was under way.
Al Jazeera, citing the Hormozgan governor’s office, reported four victims, including four-year-old Amir Ali Karimi, 16-year-old Mohammad Malahi, 43-year-old Kolsoum Malahi and 43-year-old Zarkhatoun Taheri.
More than 60 others were wounded, some seriously.
Reuters analysis by weapons experts concluded the damage was consistent with a direct hit by a US munition. Iranian officials described the incident as a war crime, while the US military maintained that it does not target civilians.
(Edited by Ratan Priya)