Iranian state-organised rallies marking the 47th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution featured protesters burning a large “Baal” effigy. The sculpture was set on fire in Tehran as crowds chanted anti‑US and anti‑Israel slogans, alongside displays of missiles, mock American coffins and other symbols meant to signal defiance of Israel and the United States. Organisers and state media framed the burning of Baal—an ancient Canaanite deity often used in modern propaganda as a stand‑in for satanism or “corrupt elites”—as a show of solidarity with “oppressed” people abroad and a warning that Iran would resist foreign pressure.