Insulting advert smuggled into Tehran newspaper
A Danish art group that specializes in targeting world leaders has succeeded in offending its latest victim — right on his home territory. They managed to smuggle an advert insulting the Iranian president into a Tehran newspaper.
Less than a year after Danish cartoonists ignited protests across the Muslim world with their depictions of Muhammad, another group from that country has risked offending Iran’s president by calling him a “swine” in a hidden message included an advertisement that got past censors and editors at the Tehran Times.
Surrend, a Danish art group that targets world leaders, successfully submitted an advertisement to the newspaper that, at first glance, expressed support for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The half-page ad, submitted under the name of “Danes for World Peace,” features a picture of Ahmadinejad and a series of statements sympathetic to his regime: “Support his fight against Bush,” “Iran has the right to produce nuclear energy,” and “Evil U.S. military stay home.” Surrend’s members told the editors they wanted to express their solidarity with Iran and make amends for the publication of cartoons of Muhammad published in their own country, reported the German daily, Der Spiegel.
- But what the advertising editors at Tehran Times missed was that the first letter of each phrase formed an acrostic that, top to bottom, spelled “S-W-I-N-E.” On it’s website, Surrend describes itself as a “street-art group” that was started in the winter of 2006 “during the funeral of Serbian war criminal Slobodan Milosevic.”
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