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The situation in Cuba is unsustainable; Cuban citizens are suffering a very critical situation, held hostage by politics. The Cuban dictatorship is incapable of guaranteeing even the bare minimum and does not seem to be yielding to threats from the U.S. government. People on the island face repression in the face of demonstrations calling for freedom and necessary change.
After 88 days of digital suffocation, the Islamic Republic has partially reopened the internet in Iran, not as a right returned to people, but as a prison window briefly cracked open.
Millions of Iranians were cut off from the world, from work, from family, from truth, while the regime continued its repression in silence and darkness.
Even now, access remains fragile, restricted, and fully controlled by the same hand that shut it down.
This cartoon is not about reconnection.
It is about a jailer deciding how much air prisoners are allowed to breathe.
The Islamic Republic has once again launched a new wave of political purges. Every time external pressure eases, this rabid dog gains more freedom to tear into its opponents and expand its machinery of executions. Woe to the day its leash is completely removed.
Marjane Satrapi leaves behind a legacy of courage, honesty, and artistic resistance. Through Persepolis and her many other works, she gave a human face to Iran and inspired generations to defend freedom and dignity.
In 2025, she refused France’s Légion d’honneur, the country’s highest state distinction, protesting what she called France’s “hypocritical attitude” toward Iran. She criticized the ease with which the children of Iranian regime insiders could enter France while many dissidents struggled to obtain visas. For Satrapi, principles mattered more than honors.
Her art changed how the world sees Iran. Her integrity ensured that her voice could never be bought.