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Iran cartoonists on tightrope during vote campaign

AFP

Press cartoonists say they are dodging “moving red lines” in the run-up to a June 14 presidential election in Iran, a country where a satirical image can get a newspaper banned or an editor jailed. There have always been no-go areas, such as caricaturing the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader, Ayatollah