Many Iranians became familiar with the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo last week, when terrorists Cherif and Said Kouachi stormed its headquarters and killed 12 of its employees on January 7. But the magazine has featured Iran in its pages for many decades, and even published caricatures of two of the country’s most influential leaders, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, and Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Website Mohammad Mosadegh, which was set up in dedication to Iran's prime minister who was toppled by a CIA-backed coup in 1953, collected every Iran-related cartoon published in Charlie Hebdo and published them, as seen below:
Date published: 18 Oct. 1971
Footnote: “It was good of you to come,” the Shah tells the King of the Idiots.
Cartoonist: Georges Wolinski, 80, killed in terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo office on January 7.
Date published: 6 Jan. 1975
Footnotes: Entitled, “Shah of Iran: Bloody Excrement” with quotation saying “If Charlie Hebdo isn’t shut down, all trade between Iran and France will come to an end.”
Cartoonist: Georges Wolinski
Date published: 21 Nov. 1979
Footnote: “Iran constipated; Shah shuts oil pipelines.”
Cartoonist: Jean-Marc Reiser – Born in France and died in 1983 aged 42.
Date published: 5 Dec. 1979
Footnote: Entitled,” The Shah plants a tree” with quote reading, “In 20 years time, I’ll have cherries!”
Cartoonist: Jean Cabut – French caricaturist killed in Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack on January 7.
Date published: 19 Dec. 1979
Footnote: Father Christmas woefully carries an armed mullah, most likely Ayatollah Khomeini, whilst saying,” I have a gift for the Shah.”
Cartoonist: Jean-Marc Reiser
Date published: 24 Sept. 1980
Footnote: “Iran-Iraq, are we going to just sit and watch?” A French man watching the news responds ”Oh yes. Oh yes.”
Cartoonist: Jean-Marc Reiser
Date published: 14 Nov. 1979
Footnote: Ayatollah Khomeini featured saying, “If I cause a World War, I’ll shave my beard.”
Cartoonist: Jean-Marc Reiser
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