The former US embassy in Tehran has been adorned with a new set of anti-American graffiti ahead of the 40th anniversary of the diplomatic crisis that unfolded there, a Sputnik correspondent reported from the scene on Saturday
TEHRAN (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 02nd November, 2019) The former US embassy in Tehran has been adorned with a new set of anti-American graffiti ahead of the 40th anniversary of the diplomatic crisis that unfolded there, a Sputnik correspondent reported from the scene on Saturday.
The embassy was the center of a lengthy diplomatic crisis following the Islamic revolution in Iran when, on November 4, 1979, about 400 members of a Muslim student movement stormed the building and took over 50 US citizens hostage. The crisis lasted 444 days and resulted in the severing of diplomatic and economic ties between the United States and Iran.
Today, the territory of the embassy is a museum dedicated to those events, unsubtly named the "US Den of Espionage Museum."
The new set of graffiti takes a swipe at US foreign policy and culture as a whole. One image shows the state of US and Iran talks, where two men sit across each other at a table with the US negotiator outfitted in military gear under the table hidden from view of the Iranian side. Another graffiti reinterprets the US flag, the star spangled banner, with skulls instead of stars and armed combatants lining the red-and-white stripes. At another section of the fence, a row of postage stamps encapsulates Iran's view of US cultural peculiarities, such as Mickey Mouse holding a gun, the Wall Street bull lusting after money, or the McDonald's box with missiles instead of French fries.
The new images were unveiled on Saturday as part of a ceremony ahead of a planned annual demonstration to be held Monday on the anniversary of the seizure of the embassy.
