In a way, the caricatures of the Supreme Leader that we have received are an extension of what Charlie’s assassinated cartoonists always denounced. In 2000, Honoré wrote a column in support of cartoonist Nik Ahang-Kosar, threatened with one year in prison and 74 strokes of the lash for having depicted Ayatollah Mohammad-Taghi Mesbah-Yazbi as a crocodile1. At the time, around 20 reformist newspapers had demanded that this worthy should be sued for slander. That really was a long time ago…
