…in the case of the Islamic regime in Iran, it’s the best form of vacuousness and recalcitrance.
A mural/relief in west Tehran’s Ekbâtân subway station depicts soldiers planting the flag of the Islamic regime.
The mural is a clear lift off of Joe Rosenthal’s famous WWII photo, Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima. The photo, taken on February 23rd, 1945, is the image of five U.S. marines and a corpsman raising the flag of the United States atop Mount Suribachi in Japan.
Now, in typical vacuous Iranian regime form, a wall mural has been created in Ekbâtân subway station (which was officially opened to the public in mid-July), mimicking the celebrated American photo; the differences are that instead of the U.S. flag, an Islamic regime’s flag is being raised. Though there appears to be only one flag, the three soldiers seen in this image, all seem to be holding their own poles (some without flags) atop which, a Khamsah - or Hamza, reminiscent of the Roman Eagle standard, is seen. Also in the background field, reliefs of the Star of David is clearly seen and from the wave of the red and green (blood and Islam) Tulips have sprung…
I wonder what Jean Baudrillard would say to this Simulacrum…
Well, at least they don’t have a relief of the US Capitol in the background. That will come later, after they wipe out Israel.
The “Star of David” here is actually the Seal of Solomon, an Islamic symbol that appears on the flags of the medieval Turkish Karamanid and Isfendiyarid dynasties in Asia Minor.
the Seal of Solomon, an Islamic symbol
Right, because the Jewish King Solomon, who lived centuries before Mohammed was a gleam in his father’s camel’s eye, was such a well-known follower of Islam…
Muslims are notorious for their historical revisionism.
Abraham was Muslim too and Moses used to make yearly pilgrimages to Mecca. As for Mohammed, he visited Al-Aqsa countless of times. And everyone knows Jesus was born a Muslim.
– Saddam’s Iraq.
Greetings:
They also say, “Monkey see, monkey do.”
However, unlike New York Liberals, they were perfectly fine with having a Homogenous group raise the flag, rather than forcing an Inclusive Image upon the populace which had no resemblence to the Real Image… Oh yes, this is an Iranian Fantasy, isn’t it.
Not like the Real Raising of the Flag in New York after the WTC fell, and that the PC crowd ABSOLUTLY HAD to make into something is wasn’t, and then when told just to depict it as it actually happened they scrapped the whole project – but I digress.
“Achmed, shouldn’t the pole extend all the way to the ground? That is how the Americans manage to set their flags.”
“That’s not… umm… ahh… DEATH TO YOU!”