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Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with a group of Basij paramilitary force in Tehran, Iran, on November 26, 2022
IRAN summoned the French ambassador on Wednesday to condemn the publication of offensive caricatures of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
The latest issue of the magazine features the winners of a recent cartoon contest in which entrants were asked to draw the most offensive caricatures of Ayatollah Khamenei, who has held Iran’s highest office since 1989.
The contest was billed as a show of support for the anti-government protests that have been rocking Iran for nearly four months.
History shows from Iraq to Libya, and now Iran, that regime-change fantasies rarely deliver stability — but they always deliver human and economic cost, says MARYAM ESLAMDOUST
In the second of two articles, STEVE BISHOP looks at how the 1979 revolution’s aims are obfuscated to create a picture where the monarchists are the opposition to the theocracy, not the burgeoning workers’ and women’s movement on the streets of Iran