'Hidden' insult at Ahmadinejad

Published on 21/12/2006 00:19

A DANISH art group that pokes fun at world leaders targeted the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, yesterday by placing an advertisement in a Tehran newspaper with an insulting hidden message.

Beneath a picture of the president, a series of apparently sympathetic statements were arranged such as "Support his fight against Bush" and "Iran has the right to produce nuclear energy". The advert was attributed to Danes for World Peace.

However, the first letters of each phrase, when read from top to bottom, spell out "S-W-I-N-E".

The English-language Tehran Times, the conservative daily that printed the half-page advert, had apparently not detected the hidden message.