The Prostate Shrine
Last week Supreme Leader Ali Khamanei received a stream of visitors at his Tehran hospital bed, after being admitted for prostate surgery. State television and newspapers carried extensive footage of these bedside visitiations, during which political loyalists and the regime elite bent over to kiss the Supreme Leader's forehead and profess their fidelity; Khamenei received these attentions with a resigned composure. The caricaturist here portrays Khamenei as a self-contained Shia shrine, drawing the faithul to prayer and pilgrimage.
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