The Iranian government sponsored a conference in which its new President made his now-famous antiSemitic, antiIsrael speech, "A world without Zionism." The graphic design of the massive poster (in front of which the new Iranian President gave his Death-to-Israel speech) is especially semiotically-loaded, with an hour-glass depicted - thru the sands of which a ball (grain of sand) falls marked Israel by the sign it bears, the Star of David - while on the bottom of the lower chamber of the hour-glass, a ball signifying the USA, inert and broken into pieces, the two balls fallen and falling give us a message: once the USA is broken, then Israel will fall. Since the graphic elements (meaning here the non-textual elements of letters of the alphabet either in English, Arabic, or Persian), the non-alphabetic graphic elements of this system of signs in the poster lack the time-markers of verb-tenses occuring in lingual units (sentences, paragraphs), the semotics of the poster could be read in another tense as well, or both: The US is already broken, and Israel is falling now. This is a semotic praxis that brings to mind the massiveness of artist and film-maker Leni Riefenstahl's propaganda for Hitler's regime. - Anaximaximum
BACKGROUND; Politics: Iran: Amir Taheri provides profound religio-philosophical analysis of Iran's new President
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