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Tehran billboard shows destroyed US, Israeli ships, reads: ‘We drowned them all’

The billboard, put up in Tehran’s commercial center, shows destroyed American and Israeli ships in a “sea” made of a Palestinian keffiyehs, with an image of the Dome of the Rock in the background.

Al Quds Day protests in Tehran, Iran, July 1, 2016. Credit: Meghdad Madadi/Tasnim News Agency via Wikimedia Commons.
Al Quds Day protests in Tehran, Iran, July 1, 2016. Credit: Meghdad Madadi/Tasnim News Agency via Wikimedia Commons.

The Iranian Fars News Agency released a video this week showing a large billboard that was put up in Vali-e Asr Square in Tehran in honor of Quds Day.

The video is a time lapse of the billboard being put up in Tehran’s commercial center.

The billboard shows destroyed American and Israeli ships in a “sea” made of a Palestinian keffiyehs, with an image of the Dome of the Rock in the background.

The billboard reads: “We Drowned Them All” in Farsi, Hebrew and English.

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