Iran Threatens Cartoon Artists Who Mocked Leader
6th January 2023
A series of cartoons depicting Ayatollah Ali Khamenei were published recently in the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
They include a turbaned cleric reaching for a hangman’s noose as he drowns in blood and Khamenei clinging to a giant throne above the raised fists of protesters. Other images depict more vulgar and sexually explicit scenes.
“The insulting and indecent act of a French publication in publishing cartoons against religious and political authority will not go without an effective and firm response,” Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian wrote on Twitter.
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Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
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