--- title: 'Mojrem-e Beynolmelali (International Criminal): khamenei.ir poster' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/khamenei-international-criminal-poster-2026/ description: Poster showing a figure in a dark suit with a U.S. flag lapel pin standing at a courtroom rail, with three case files labelled 'Slanders', 'Damages' and… section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![Mojrem-e Beynolmelali (International Criminal): khamenei.ir poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/khamenei-international-criminal-poster-2026.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/khamenei-international-criminal-poster-2026.jpg) # Mojrem-e Beynolmelali (International Criminal): khamenei.ir poster Poster showing a figure in a dark suit with a U.S. flag lapel pin standing at a courtroom rail, with three case files labelled 'Slanders', 'Damages' and 'Casualties' and a gavel. The title 'International Criminal' and the quoted remarks attach the label to the U.S. president, and the court furniture lends a judicial setting to an accusation made by one party. - **Date:** January 17, 2026 - **Period:** [Contemporary](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=contemporary) - **Made by:** Office of the Supreme Leader of Iran (khamenei.ir) - **Region:** [Middle East and North Africa](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=middle-east-north-africa) - **Country:** [Iran](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=iran) - **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster) - **Issuer type:** [State](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=state) - **Regime:** [Islamic Republic of Iran](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=islamic-republic-of-iran) - **Leader:** [Ali Khamenei](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=ali-khamenei) - **Audience:** [Mixed](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=mixed) - **Purpose:** [Demonize](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=demonize) - **Theme:** [Security and surveillance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=security-surveillance) - **Techniques:** [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) - **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are - **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons (from khamenei.ir)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:International_Criminal.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026 - **Rights:** CC BY 4.0 (khamenei.ir site licence, as recorded on the Commons file page) khamenei.ir, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. ## Text on the object Original (Persian) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` مجرم بین‌المللی شخص رئیس‌جمهور آمریکا، در این فتنه دخالت کرد، تهدید کرد، فتنه‌گران را تشویق کرد... این مجموعه‌ای که تخریب کردند و آتش زدند و کارهای خلاف کردند و آدم کشتند، اینها را به عنوان ملّت ایران معرّفی کرد؛ یعنی تهمت بزرگی به ملّت ایران زد... اینها جرم است... ما رئیس جمهور آمریکا را مجرم میدانیم؛ به خاطر تلفات، خسارات و تهمتی که به ملّت ایران زد. [signature, calligraphic] ۱۴۰۴/۱۰/۲۷ رهبر انقلاب اسلامی تهمت‌ها Slanders خسارات Damages تلفات Casualties [logo: KHAMENEI.IR] ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` International Criminal The person of the President of America intervened in this sedition, threatened, encouraged the seditionists... This group that destroyed and set fires and did unlawful things and killed people, he introduced them as the Iranian nation; that is, he made a great slander against the Iranian nation... These are crimes... We consider the President of America a criminal; because of the casualties, damages and the slander that he inflicted on the Iranian nation. [signature, calligraphic] 27/10/1404 (Iranian calendar) Leader of the Islamic Revolution Slanders (Persian, then English) Damages (Persian, then English) Casualties (Persian, then English) [logo: KHAMENEI.IR] ``` Read from a 1280 px rendering; the body text is clear. The ellipses are the poster's own. The signature is calligraphic and is not transcribed as text. Translation is a machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader. 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