Nik Kowsar Cartoon Pulled From Site

A cartoon from exiled Iranian cartoonist Nikahang Kowsar has been removed from a site focused on Iranian news similarly based out of that country, according to a post at the Persian Letters blog by Iranian news analyst Golnaz Esfandiari. The cartoon pulled from Rooz On-Line was apparently critical of reformist leader Mir Hossein Musavi, extrapolating from the politician's recent release of political guidelines for the Green Movement that years and years from now he would still be releasing such political guidelines. Kowsar is a contributor to the publication that removed his cartoons, and declined Esfandiari's request for comment. Once jailed for his cartoon featuring a political figure then in power, Kowsar has been an eloquent spokesman for the specific pressures facing cartoonists in Iran and those that have since left the country but remain enmeshed in its political outcomes.

When political forces are caught in moments of flux and change, processing criticism of the home team as it were is always a difficult matter. The post suggests that the cartoon has since been employed by more conservative forces within Iran, although in what capacity beyond the obvious aping of the criticism and suggesting that the difference in opinions within the opposition are a political weakness, I'm not exactly sure.
 
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