GALLERY: Iran's Anti-U.S. Street Art

Tehran is alive with murals wishing death to America.

By Allan MacDonell

October 13, 2011

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Warlike Wallpaper

No need to remove the headscarf to read the writing on the wall.

Photo: Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters

Two Faces of Liberty?

An Iranian woman comes eye-to-eye with a piece of heavy-handed messaging on the wall of the former U.S. embassy in Tehran.

Photo: Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters

Hostage to History

Basking in bygone glory days, an Iranian cleric poses in front of a mural of an American hostage on the wall of the former U.S. embassy in Tehran.

Photo: Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters

Rocket to Isolation

A woman—who would have no greater variety of outerwear even if all sanctions against Iran were lifted—walks past an anti-U.S. mural on the wall of the former U.S. embassy in Tehran.

Photo: Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters

Romance and Rhetoric

An Iranian couple walks past a banner after a demonstration in support of the people of Bahrain, outside the University of Tehran.

Photo: Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters

Style or Substance?

Tehran women exhibit the latest in local fall fashions, with a perennial backdrop of U.S. demonization.

Photo: Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters

Art Attack! Tehran Style

Iran, apparently, is home to a large population of Robbie Conal clones, and the government employs them all.

Photo: Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters

U.S. authorities said on Tuesday that they had broken up a plot by two men linked to Iran's security agencies to kill the Saudi envoy, Adel al-Jubeir, on American soil. One suspect was arrested last month; the other is believed to be in Iran. By Wednesday, the alleged plot was smelling fishy, but there appears to be no false enmity in Iran's official attitude toward the United States.

Exhibits One through Seven: The former U.S. embassy in Tehran has been turned into an open-air canvas for anti-U.S. sentiment.