
Religious protesters in Qom, a center of Islamic teaching 80 miles (130 km) southeast
of the Iranian capital Tehran, voice anger on January 12, 2003 over a
caricature published in a reformist newspaper owned by the brother of Iran's
conservative supreme leader. The caricature, which depicts a robed, bearded figure
sitting under a giant thumb, is considered by some clerics to bear a clear resemblance
to the Islamic Republic's founding father Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who died in
1989. The Hayat-e No newspaper which published the drawing, was closed down on January
11. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl
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