Friday, February 3, 2012

The Paper Tiger has no Iron Claws after all...



The funniest thing out of Iran - Cardboard Khomeini

From the NYT blog via Elder of Ziyon

To celebrate the 33rd anniversary on Wednesday of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s triumphant return from exile, Iran re-enacted his arrival at a Tehran airport, using a cardboard cutout to stand in for the late Iranian leader.

Photographs of the ceremony published on Tuesday by Iran’s semiofficial Mehr news agencyseemed to lend themselves to parody, with Farsi and English Internet satirists treating them as bizarre authoritarian kitsch.




The photos showed a band playing welcome music as dozens of men in dress uniforms clutched roses and lined up on a tarmac for the staged arrival of the cardboard Ayatollah Khomeini.

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