Cartoon 170: Khamenei vs. Rouhani
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May 23, 2017
Cartoon 167: Raisi’s Candidacy
The presidential candidacy of Ebrahim Raisi as depicted by Iranian cartoonist Touka Neyastani....
April 12, 2017
Cartoon 165: Voting in Iran
"Voting in Iran" by cartoonist Touka Neyestani....
September 14, 2016
Cartoon 155: Proud
Just a few weeks after the publication of a 1988 audio recording on the late Grand Ayatollah Hosseinali Montazeri's website in which he told Judiciary ...
August 17, 2016
Cartoon 153: Silencing Montazeri
Following publication of the audio file of a 1988 meeting in which the late Grand Ayatollah Hosseinali Montazeri admonished Sharia judges and officials about the ...
August 8, 2016
Cartoon 152: Executions in Iran
Iranian cartoonist Touka Neyestani's take on the recent surge in prison executions in Iran....
July 31, 2016
Cartoon 151: ISIS
Iranian cartoonist Touka Neyestani's take on ISIS' effect on the lives of children in the Middle East....
July 30, 2016
Cartoon 150: Cause of Death
The untimely July 4 death of prominent Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami in Paris, following several unsuccessful operations between March and July 2016 in Iran, has raised public debate and government attention to issues never ...
July 23, 2016
Cartoon 149: Worthless Versus Valuable “Likes”
At a June 23, 2016 public meeting with poets chosen and invited by his administration, Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said: "I have heard that some publish their poetry on the Internet. For ...
July 16, 2016
Cartoon 148: Orlando
Iranian cartoonist Touka Neyestani reacts to the June 12, 2016 shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in which 49 patrons were killed and 53 more were injured. The perpetrator, Omar S. ...
July 9, 2016
Cartoon 147: Iranian Alcoholics Beat European Alcoholics 3-1
ِDespite four decades of prohibition of alcoholic beverages and serious punishment for alcohol consumption in Iran, "...an alcoholic in Iran consumes three times more alcohol ...
March 11, 2016
Cartoon 143: Norooz
The Spring Equinox marks Norooz, the start of the Persian New Year. The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran takes this opportunity to wish everyone around ...
March 3, 2016
Cartoon 141: Almost “Disqualified” By Voters
The February 2016 elections in Iran produced unexpected results for the hardliners, who had made every effort to keep reformist and moderate candidates out ...
February 17, 2016
Cartoon 139: Forget About Valentine!
On Valentine's Day this year, shops were prohibited from displaying any signs or selling any products associated with the “decadent Western cultural phenomenon known ...
February 11, 2016
Cartoon 138: “Explosion of Light,” Not!
The Islamic Republic of Iran refers to the anniversary of the 1979 Revolution as the “Explosion of Light.” But the reality is quite dark…filled with ...
February 5, 2016
Cartoon 137: “Remember the Spent Candle! Remember!”
“Tell our friends for us, remember the spent candle! Remember!" Iranian cartoonist Touka Neyestani's take ...
January 28, 2016
Cartoon 136: Iran: Elections Without People’s Representatives
Iranian cartoonist Touka Neyestani's look at the widespread arbitrary disqualifications of female and reformist candidates by the Islamic Republic of Iran's Council of Guardians....
January 20, 2016
Cartoon 135: Prisoner Swap
On January 16, 2016, the Islamic Republic of Iran released four prisoners with dual Iranian and American citizenships, in return for the release of several ...
January 2, 2016
Cartoon 133: Will 2016 Offer Safe Shores?
Wishing a Happy 2016 for all those searching for safe shores, free of persecution, free of pain, free of loss, and free of violations of basic human ...
December 29, 2015
Cartoon 132: Santa and the New Visa Waiver Restrictions
Touka Neyestani ponders who will be caught by the US's new visa waiver restrictions (H.R. 158), which unfairly and indiscriminately target Iranian and three other nationalities for ...
December 11, 2015
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 ...
November 18, 2015
Cartoon 129: For Imprisoned Cartoonist Hadi Heidari
Security forces arrested the prominent Iranian cartoonist Hadi Heidari in his office at Shahrvand Daily in Tehran today, November 16, 2015. Two co-workers of ...
November 15, 2015
Cartoon 127: Who Will be Arrested Tomorrow?
Reacting to the recent arrests of Iranian journalists by the IRGC, and extensive articles on the subject on ultra-conservative media such as Kayhan and Fars ...
November 10, 2015
Cartoon 126: Khamenei’s Green Light for Press Crackdown
Several journalists were arrested in Iran over the past week in an intensifying campaign of repression that is based on the belief, spearheaded by Iran’s ...
October 12, 2015
Cartoon 124: Women, Men, and Permission to Travel
Cartoonist Touka Neyestani's take on the discriminatory laws that allow Iranian men immense control over their wives' work and travel rights. In a highly publicized recent case, Niloufar Ardalan, the captain of Iranian ...