Here we bring three caricatures from the times of USA’s attack on Iran and Vietnam, as well as USA-Israeli war in the Middle east…
He’s sticking in his aircraft carrier nose
With the USS Abraham Lincoln lined up against Iran, let’s take a look through Soviet satire at the continuous US ‘meddling in Iranian affairs’ before returning to the latest update on the situation in the Sea of Oman.
The caricature by Yu.Cherepanov in the Soviet satirical magazine “Krokodil” issue №4 from 1979 illustrated this news:
“In the American government circles and in the Pentagon, they discuss various options for interference of the USA into the domestic affairs of Iran.”
✍️ The title of the caricature is an untranslatable pun, which forms the basis for the drawing: “Aircraft carrier” in Russian is “Avianosets”, while “nose” is “nos”, which gives an image of an “AviaNOS” — an “air-NOSE-carrier”. The word above the keyhole is “Iran”.
Source: @BeornAndTheShieldmaiden
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Update as of March 5, 2026:
USS Abraham Lincoln flees after precision strike by IRGC drones in Sea of Oman
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy has successfully targeted the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier using advanced domestically-produced drones, forcing the strike group into a rapid retreat near Iranian territorial waters.
Source: @PressTV
— “Try not to miss any of these strategic objects!” says the American general.
In the circles on the map we can see the objects: School, kindergarten, museum, university, hospital, etc…
The caricature appeared in issue №23 of Krokodil from 1966.
Artist: E.Shukaev
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Almost 60 years later Vietnam, USA and its Zionist lapdog are using the same genocidal supremacist modus operandi in Iran, deliberately destroying schools, hospitals, universities, libraries, museums, mosques, churches, residential blocks, stadiums.
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The massacre at the girls school in the city of Minab was just one of the first civilian locations targeted by American/Israeli brutal aggression; many more have been attacked during the past 5 days. Here are some of them:
Report source
• Residential areas in Niloufar Square, Tehran (over 20 innocent people were killed)
• A densely populated residential complex in Sanandaj, western Iran
• The historic Radio Citadel and Golestan Palace, south of Tehran
• Gandhi Hospital, Tehran
• Tehran Grand Bazaar, Tehran
• Abuzar Hospital, Ahvaz, southwestern Iran
• The vicinity of the Iranian Red Crescent Society building, Tehran
• Khatam al-Anbia Hospital, Tehran
• The Welfare Organisation, Tehran
• Motahari Hospital, Tehran
• Vali-Asr Hospital, Tehran
• Trauma and Burn Hospital, Tehran
• Ameneh Infant Care Centre, Tehran
• Shahid Rajaei Heart Hospital, Tehran
• Residential homes surrounding Sepah Square, Tehran
• Residential areas in Maragheh, northwestern Iran (over 27 innocent people were killed)
• Baqaei Hospital, Ahvaz, southwestern Iran
• Emergency medical base, Chabahar
• Emergency medical base, Sarab, northwestern Iran
• Emergency medical base, Hamedan, central Iran
• Hazrat Abolfazl Hospital, Minab, southern Iran
• Shahid Mahallati Primary School, Tehran
• Hedayat School, Narmak, Tehran
• A sports hall in Lamerd, Fars Province, southern Iran (18 innocent boys and girls were killed)
• 35 innocent people were killed in Fars Province, central Iran
• Bazaar in Baharestan Square, central Tehran
• A park for children in Tehran
• Emergency medical centre, Tehran
• A kindergarten in Narmak
• Residential homes in Narmak district, Araghi st., Marzdaran blvd, Tehran
• Arg Square, The historic Radio Citadel and Golestan Palace, south of Tehran
• Attack on Mir-Damād Boulevard, causing damage to residential and medical facilities
• Attack on 2 headquarters of the Diplomatic Police
The U.S. and Israel are following the Gaza “war crimes playbook” (https://t.me/BeornAndTheShieldmaiden/22867) in Iran – Reza Nasri on X
In just six days, fourteen medical and pharmaceutical centers were attacked. Among the facilities directly targeted or severely damaged were:
🔻Blood Transfusion Center in West Azerbaijan Province
🔻Taleghani Hospital in Urmia
🔻 Minab Clinic in Hormozgan Province
🔻Shohada-ye Sarpol-e Zahab Hospital
🔻Shohada-ye Khalij Fars Hospital in Bushehr
🔻Gandhi Hospital in Tehran
🔻Shahid Motahari Burn and Accident Hospital in Tehran
🔻Ameneh Infant Home, Welfare Center for the Disabled in Tehran
🔻Khatam al-Anbiya Hospital
🔻 Shahid Rajaei Hospital
🔻Ghazal Limited Surgery Center
🔻Obaidi Pharmaceutical Company
The hand fuelling Israel’s war machine
The US imperialist hand, fuelling Israel in its genocidal aggression, is clearly depicted in this caricature by M.Abramov from the 1981 issue №23 of the Soviet satirical magazine «Krokodil».
The caricature is accompanied by a verse by M.Vladimirov:
In whole planet’s clear sight
Refuelling goes on mid-flight
Everyone can here see
Who this plundering’s financing
Today, demasking efforts are no longer necessary, even if Wall Street’s spox Washington are still using the zionist proxy to try shift the blame. Everybody knows what economic interests are driving the death and destruction that is now being unleashed on Iran.
✊ Iran, heroically defending its sovereignty against the US-Israeli war of aggression, are delivering devastating blows to the exercise of US supremacy and imperialist dominance over the Middle East.
✊With retaliatory strikes on US military bases surrounding it, Iran has challenged and exposed the anti-people rulers of the artificial Gulf states, put in place by the British and since overtaken by the US.
✊ By standing tall to imperialism, Iran has inspired courage and hope for the suppressed populations, who are now rising up against their puppet leaders.
✊ Iran always stood with Palestine, not in cheap words, in deeds! Now, as Iran is fighting for survival all anti-imperialists must stand with Iran!
Source: @BeornAndTheShieldmaiden