Cartoon 131: Choice, Force, and Infiltration

After nearly four decades of tight control on state media such as the Iranian radio and television programming, Friday prayer pulpits, educational curriculum, unabated censorship of the press, books, films, all artistic forms, and the Internet, and the Iranian government’s direct interference in personal issues and private domains of citizens on the pretext of implementing an Islamic lifestyle model, the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran still speak fearfully of “infiltration” of other narratives of news and developments and lifestyles into the Iranian people’s lives. This is cartoonist Touka Neyestani’s take on the recent warnings and arrests on the pretext of “infiltration.”