Poster in Tehran shows Zelenskyy among US “victims”

A poster in central Tehran has portrayed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as one of the “victims of the United States.”

The performance was organised to mark the 46th anniversary of the seizure of the US embassy ahead of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Caliber.Az reports via foreign media.

The poster shows the head of the Statue of Liberty with portraits of politicians said to have suffered because of the US — including Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, Iran’s last Shah Reza Pahlavi, former Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, and Zelenskyy — placed within its crown.

The inscriptions on the poster read: “Behind the veil of promises of freedom” and “The US — the great Satan.”

On November 4, 1979, a group of Iranian students aligned with the Ruhollah Khomeini-led revolution stormed the Embassy of the United States in Tehran and seized 66 American diplomats and civilian personnel, of whom 52 were held hostage for 444 days.

The takeover marked a turning point in US-Iran relations: formal diplomatic ties were severed, and the crisis had major consequences for the US presidency of Jimmy Carter and the emerging Islamic Republic of Iran.

Each year in Iran, the anniversary of the embassy seizure is commemorated with state-sponsored demonstrations and anti-US slogans, underscoring the event’s enduring symbolic value in Iran’s political narrative.

By Jeyhun Aghazada