A black and white image depicting a king on a makeshift throne surrounded by scenes of urban poverty, including people waiting in queues and searching trash.

A powerful symbolic scene representing poverty in modern Iran, inspired by the Persian verse: “When a beggar becomes a king, he turns the whole world into beggars.” In the center, show a fictional Iranian ruler — an old, thin, exhausted man with a long unkempt beard, wearing worn-out traditional robes and a cheap, crooked metal crown. His face must NOT resemble any real political figure. He sits on a throne made of broken supermarket carts, rusty metal, torn Persian rugs, and piles of worthless Iranian banknotes. Around him, arranged like cinematic frames or fragmented panels, depict multiple hyper-realistic scenes of poor Iranian people: families waiting in long food queues with empty bags, elderly searching through trash bins, barefoot children collecting plastic bottles, women holding devalued currency, street vendors with almost nothing left to sell. The city background shows cracked concrete buildings, shuttered shops, inflation posters, and winds blowing worthless banknotes across the streets. Atmosphere: dark, dystopian, emotional, high-contrast, cinematic. Lighting dramatic, texture-rich, ultra-detailed, resembling a modern Iranian neo-noir film. Composition centered on the symbolic ruler, surrounded by the suffering of the people he has caused. See more