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A group calling itself Danes for World Peace took out this advert in the Tehran Times newspaper. The ad showed, beneath a photograph of the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, five statements apparently in support of Ahmadinejad’s anti-US stance. However, it can be seen on closer scrutiny of the text that the first letters of each slogan spell out, as an acrostic, SWINE. The perpetrators of the spoof were subsequently discovered to be the Danish street-art group, Surrend. According to their website, Surrend’s mission is “to make fun of the world’s powerful men.”
In the past the group has carried out campaigns in places including Serbia, Belarus and Sri Lanka, using the street as its “exhibition space”. In Serbia, Surrend affixed stickers to nationalist posters celebrating the alleged war criminal Ratko Mladic. The stickers read, “We know where you are”, in a reference to the fact that there is an international warrant out for Mladic’s arrest. In Belarus stickers were posted showing a photo of President Alexander Lukashenko beside such captions as “You run the sun, the moon and the corruption!”
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