Like many other residents of Tehran, Sohrab* is used to seeing a new face staring down at him: AI-generated portraits of Mojtaba Khamenei, the new supreme leader.
“They’ve made the city ugly,” the 35-year-old restaurant manager said. “Everywhere, there are pictures of [the late ayatollah] Ali Khamenei and his son, Mojtaba. When I see this propaganda, I curse [them].”
In Iran’s capital, the war is portrayed on the city’s walls, flyovers and public squares, where the Islamic regime has plastered propaganda campaigns to project control and glorify resistance.
