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Tell Me More, July 24, 2009 · Political cartoons are often both funny and poignant. But they can also be inflammatory. Iranian cartoonist Nikahang Kowsar published a cartoon that showed Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dancing the tango, together. Such cartoons landed Kowsar in jail and eventually expelled from Iran. The artist talks about his cartoons, and why he's still publishing them.
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No, Kowsar quickly replies. "As a cartoonist in Iran, you should be nuts," he says. "I was nuts."..
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TORONTO — In the winter of 2000, when I first met Nikahang Kowsar, he had just been released from jail in Tehran.
It was, as it often is in Iran, a tumultuous time. The country was in the middle of parliamentary elections and hard-line conservatives were cracking down. Their accomplices in the judiciary were closing reformist newspapers practically every day. Kowsar, one of Iran’s best-known political cartoonists, became a target.
His sketches, published in three widely read newspapers, rattled the ruling theocracy. He was jailed — accused of mocking a powerful hard-line cleric — for a cartoon showing a crocodile shedding tears as his tail strangled a journalist....
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