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Iranian city mocked after using picture of Israeli soldiers on a memorial poster for fallen troops
The Iranian regime does not recognise Israel, with its leaders regularly calling for the country's destruction
September 28, 2018 08:05
The Iranian regime does not recognise Israel, with its leaders regularly calling for the country's destruction
September 28, 2018 08:05Officials in a major Iranian city have been left red-faced after a billboard, erected in a public square to commemorate “martyrs” from the Iran-Iraq war, was found to have used an image of Israeli soldiers.
As part of the Iranian regime’s annual “Sacred Defence Week”, a large poster was put up in downtown Shiraz, showing three soldiers standing on a rocky outcrop, their backs to the camera, with their heads down.
It included a quote from an Iranian poet, Ali Moalem Damghani: “They stare at me, still glorious, I see their shadow on the mountain.”
However, some of the city’s residents spotted that the soldiers pictured were carrying M16 assault rifles, which are not used by the Iranian army. The picture was subsequently traced back to a website called Unsplash.com – and the original image was found to depict Israeli soldiers – including a female soldier, who had been cropped out of the version used on the Shiraz billboard.
