Advert Pokes Fun at Ahmadinejad

A Danish art group that specializes in targeting world leaders has succeeded in offending its latest victim -- right on his home territory. They managed to smuggle an advert insulting the Iranian president into a Tehran newspaper.

The Danes certainly seem to enjoy stirring things up. Last year it was the cartoons satirizing the Prophet Muhammad. This year it's an ad insulting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Except this time things are a little different. A Danish art group that specializes in poking fun at world leaders, managed to send in a Trojan horse -- and get their insult published in Tehran itself.

At first glance the advertisement placed in the Tehran newspaper on Wednesday seemed to be declaring support for the Iranian leader. Beneath an image of the hard-line president, there was a series of apparently sympathetic statements such as "Support his fight against Bush," or "Iran has the right to produce nuclear energy." However, on closer inspection things were not quite so benign: the first letters of each phrase when read from top to bottom spelt out the less than subtle insult "S-W-I-N-E."