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Tag : touka neyestani

July 7, 2017

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 and Intelligence Ministry officials  at a meeting that the mass executions of political ...

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 prison massacre of Iranian dissidents, conservative Mashad cleric Ahmad Alamolhoda has ...

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 addressed before. ...

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 example, someone ...

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. Mateen, who ...

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 than an alcoholic in Europe," according to Mohammad Ghadirzadeh, General Director ...

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 the world a happy and joyous Spring, and a world ...

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 of the competition through major disqualifications handed out by the conservative Council ...

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 as Valentine’s Day,” Iran’s police force announced on February 10. “Young men and ...

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 repression, denial of the most basic rights and freedoms, imprisonment, and executions. ...

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 on Zahra Rahnavard's message to her family, after five years under house ...

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 Iranians held in US prisons mostly on crimes related to violations of ...

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 rights. Cartoon by Touka Neyestani....

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 new visa requirements....

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 press, books, films, all artistic forms, and the Internet, and ...

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 Heidari at the Tehran daily confirmed the arrest and told the International ...

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 News Agency, the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said during a ...

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 supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei, that the US intends to use ...

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 women’s National ...

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