Iran has escalated its public taunting of the US with a series of ominous billboards that have stirred conspiracy theories about Senator Lindsey Graham and appeared to point toward a threat against President Donald Trump.
One striking red billboard appeared this week in Tehran’s Valiasr Square carrying the unsettling message: “Who is D nexT one? #lindseygraham.”
The unusual capitalization in the phrase appeared to spotlight Trump’s initials, prompting speculation that Tehran was signaling the 80-year-old president as a potential next target.
A second billboard reportedly showed the US president lying in a coffin, alongside Persian text translated as: “We will kill Trump.”
The displays follow another provocative image seen earlier this week in Palestine Square, where Trump and members of his family were depicted behind coffins draped with American flags after US missiles struck Iranian bridges, railways and water facilities.
The latest billboards have intensified online conspiracy theories surrounding Graham’s death at 71 last weekend, with some speculating, without evidence, that Iran may have played a role after the senator visited Ukraine only days earlier.
There has been no confirmation or evidence indicating that Iran was involved in Graham’s death.
Before his death, the South Carolina senator had traveled to Kyiv and spoke with Trump the night before he died.
Iranian billboards have fueled conspiracy theories about Senator Lindsey Graham’s death and a possible Donald Trump assassination plan
A red billboard in Valiasr Square in Tehran read: ‘Who is D nexT one? #lindseygraham.’ It highlights Trump’s initials
A different billboard showed Trump in a coffin. It Persian, the billboard reportedly reads: ‘We will kill Trump’
An unidentified person who spoke with Graham in the moments after told Axios he complained that he was feeling unwell.
When the individual urged Graham to seek medical attention immediately, the senator said he would do so on Sunday morning after his scheduled appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press.
He then joked: ‘I can’t die now. I still need to do the Russian sanctions, get Iran sorted out, and do Israeli-Saudi normalization,’ according to the outlet.
But just a few hours after making the quip on July 11, the senator was seen lying on a gurney as first responders attempted life-saving measures in pictures obtained by TMZ.
He appeared to be intubated as EMTs pushed the gurney into a nearby ambulance that was headed for George Washington University Hospital.
Authorities first received a 911 call about a ‘cardiac arrest’ at Graham’s home at around 8.30pm that night, according to multiple reports. Hordes of first responders were then seen descending on the street outside Graham’s house.
Just about 25 minutes after the call, first responders had started CPR as the senator suffered from cardiac arrest, according to police scanner audio obtained by The Washington Post.
Then, early on July 12, Graham’s office announced he had ‘passed away from a brief and sudden illness.’
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The new billboards has fueled conspiracy theories that Iran was involved with Graham’s death as he was calling for sanctions against the country and was in Ukraine days before passing
On Sunday, Trump called for Iran to added to the Russian Sanctions Bill in Graham’s honor
His cause of death has since been revealed to be ‘aortic dissection due to arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease.’
The Mayo Clinic defines an aortic dissection as a tear in the inner layer of the aorta, the body’s main artery. It can be fatal if blood rushes through the tear. In Graham’s case, plaque buildup on his heart weakened the aortic walls, causing a tear.
After the shocking new advertisements and Graham’s death, Trump took to Truth Social early Sunday morning to call for additional measures to be taken against Iran in the senator’s name.
‘Republicans should add Iran to the Russian Sanctions Bill. That’s what Lindsey wanted to do, and it was going to happen. IMPORTANT!!!’ he wrote.
It is unclear who is behind the Iranian billboards. The Daily Mail has reached out to the White House for comment.
Iranian officials are also now urging people to stay away from US military bases in the Middle East.
‘In response to US acts of aggression and threats from terrorist groups, Iran has launched missile strikes targeting Sulaymaniyah (Iraq) and Bahrain,’ the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting said on X.
‘People should stay away from US bases.’
Iran’s new leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, said he would seek vengeance against the US and said America would face ‘unforgettable lessons’
Iran’s new leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, also took to X to call out Trump, writing: ‘Now that the American enemy seeks to ignite war and endure heavier costs, it should know that the Iranian nation and the Resistance Front have unforgettable lessons in store for it.’
Khamenei also called Trump the ‘Great Satan.’
‘Today, the Great Satan has once again revealed its true, unmasked face, so that this dark episode of criminality and broken promises serves as yet another indisputable testament to the US’s dishonesty, irrationality, unreliability, and malicious nature,’ the leader wrote on X.
‘Coercion, totalitarianism, and brutality are inseparable components of the US creed and doctrine.
‘The repeated breaches of the agreement by the Great Satan [the US] regarding the MOU signed by the Presidents of Iran and the US have once again laid bare a fundamental truth: the signature of the US President is utterly worthless and devoid of credibility.’
Speaking to Iranians, Khamenei said the government would seek to avenge citizens and that ‘vengeance is what our nation is demanding, and this must definitely be done.’
