According to locals the billboard was erected in Namazi Square in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz. The billboard had a quote from poet Ali Moalem Damghani, which commemorated “martyrs” from past wars. Iran’s Defense Week this year has commemorated three decades since the end of the Iran-Iraq war in which hundreds of thousands of Iranians died. “They stare at me, still glorious, I see their shadow on the mountain,” the quote on the billboard said.The billboard depicted three Israeli soldiers, photoshopped from a photo by Timon Studler that had been uploaded onto the Unsplash.com website. The image was cropped to remove a female IDF soldier. However, the person who made the poster neglected to notice that the soldiers had M-16s – rifles the Iranian army is not equipped with.The billboard was first photographed by someone with the twitter handle @Mhrezaa and then spread to several Turkish Twitter accounts. By nightfall, Iranians gathered to photograph the image being removed from the billboard. Two people smiled and gestured to a camera, in an image that was subsequently posted online, evidently mocking the irony of the mistaken placement of the IDF in their city.İran'ın Şiraz kentinde "Kutsal Savunma Haftası" anısına şehitlere minnet konulu şiir yazılan bilboard üzerine, yanlışlıkla İsrail askerlerinin fotoğrafı koyuldu.[Via-@pirmikaili ] pic.twitter.com/DPp8TBtOuF
— EHA MEDYA (@eha_medya) September 26, 2018
Shiraz once had a large Jewish community of over 20,000 people. In the year 2000, 13 Jewish men in Shiraz were accused of spying and put on trial, including a rabbi. Ten were convicted.بنر شورای اسرائیل شهر شیراز رو آوردیم پایین#زندگی_سگی_شورای_شهر_شیراز pic.twitter.com/3uWJauZQPj
— حاج فیدل (@haj_komeil) September 26, 2018