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October 24, 2001
The Iranian

These cartoons are from 1900 up to about 1917 -- the earliest examples of political cartoons. They have been reprinted in Seyr-e tahavollaat-e 70 saal kaarikaator dar iran (The evolution of Iranian cartoons in the past 70 years) by Hamid Saher (Atropat publishing, Iran, 1998). They include cartoons from Molla Nasreddin, Azarbaijan, Hasharat-ol-Arz, and Nahid satirical papers.

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