Cartoon 97: “Looking” for Acid Attack Perpetrators

Although no arrests have been made in the case of the October 2014 acid attacks on women in Isfahan, government officials have been quick to state publicly that the attacks were related to foreign elements and that the news coverage about the attacks has been exaggerated by “hostile media” outside Iran. In a strange reaction to the public outcry to the authorities’ failure to find the perpetrators, Mohammad Javad Larijani, Head of Iran’s Human Rights Council, said that “there is speculation that perhaps some states had a hand in these crimes.” Cartoon by Iranian cartoonist, Touka Neyestani.