TEHRAN – A new mural for Vanaksquare in Tehran was announced on Tuesday, depicting the legendary Iranian character “The Shooter” (Persian Arash Ekamangir) and ready to shoot an arrow.
This was the latest artistic response to the Zionist regime’s attacks on Tehran and several other Iranian cities, followed by the Islamic Republic’s armed response to invaders, Irna reported.
The poem is written as follows: “For Iran, I place my life in the bow. The murals and poetry come together to convey the will and resistance of the state to the attack.
Legend has it that Arash was the best archer in the Persian army. He was chosen to resolve the land dispute between Persia and Turan (now Central Asia).
When the two land kings – Manucher and Aphrasyab – decided to settle the conflict and set a permanent boundary between Persia and Turan, they reached a mutual understanding that Arash should climb to the peak of the tall Mount Damavand, from which they shot an arrow eastward. Wherever his arrows landed, they would agree and decide the boundary of the two kingdoms.
Arash fired an arrow (till) on the 13th day of the month of the Persian Till. Therefore, the borders of both countries were marked.
Legend has shown that as soon as the border dispute was settled, rain began to fall on both the lands that had suffered from the eight-year drought.
Early on June 13, Israel launched a massive, untrained, armed attack on Iran. This was a terrible act of attack by all definitions. Since then, through coordinated air, missile and drone strikes, it has targeted residential areas, civil infrastructure, public agencies, and nuclear facilities that are subject to protection of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), bringing the martial arts of senior military commanders, well-known scientists, and innocent civilians, including women and children.
In response to Israel’s attacks on Iran’s territory, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) launched a massive retaliation operation codenamed “True Promise 3.”
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