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Iran Puts On ‘I Can’t Breathe’ Art Exhibition, Shows Trump As Hitler, Police as Ku Klux Klan

Tim Pearce
Iran Puts On ‘I Can’t Breathe’ Art Exhibition, Shows Trump As Hitler, Police as Ku Klux Klan
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Iran sponsored an international art exhibition highlighting the death of American George Floyd, who died while being arrested by Minneapolis police on Memorial Day.

The exhibition, titled “I can’t breathe” after Floyd’s own comments during his final moments, featured artwork depicting Floyd’s arrest, U.S. police as Nazis and white supremacists, and the United States as a systemically racist country. In one painting, a Guillotine for “black people” was decorated with an American flag blade, according to Iranian state television video shared by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).

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