'U.S. the agent of global Zionism, the creator of ISIS' khamenei.ir poster (Tehran, 17 October 2017)
A headless figure in a suit, split down the middle: the left half is plain black, the right half is striped red and white with a US flag cuff, and a tie bears the Israeli flag and Star of David. Blood spatters the torn paper edge below. Printed text quotes Ayatollah Khamenei: the US is behind the 'viciousness, warmongering and massacres' of the region, 'the agent of global Zionism', and 'They created the ISIS.' The tells are one composite villain for many causes and a leader's quotation standing in for evidence.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- October 17, 2017
- Period
- Contemporary
- Made by
- Office of the Supreme Leader of Iran (khamenei.ir)
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- Middle East and North Africa
- Country
- Iran
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Islamic Republic of Iran
- Leader
- Ali Khamenei
- Audience
- Mixed
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Religion
- Event
- Syrian Civil War
- Leader
- Mojtaba Khamenei
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (from khamenei.ir), retrieved October 12, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY 4.0 (khamenei.ir site licence statement, via Commons)
Khamenei.ir (Office of the Supreme Leader of Iran), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked
The US is an enemy of independent nations. It is behind much of the viciousness, warmongering and massacres that exists in our region and many other regions in the world The US is the agent of global Zionism. They created the ISIS. ~Ayatollah Khamenei [logo:] KHAMENEI.IR english.khamenei.ir
The Star of David and flag cuff are graphics, not text. Text is as printed.
