Cardboard Khomeini
CHALLAH @ RFERL
In February 1, 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini — the leader of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution — returned triumphantly to Tehran on an Air France flight from Paris after 14 years in exile.
Now, 33 years later, that return was reenacted in a bizarre ceremony that saw guards carrying a giant cardboard cutout of Khomeini down the stairs of a passenger plane and a waiting crowd paying their respects to “him.”
Iranians have been faced with many unusual and absurd events in the past three decades of the rule of the clerics. The February 1 ceremony, however, may have topped them all.
Below is a small collection of Cardboard Khomeini’s from Mehr News.
Update: It looks like someone has created a blog all about our friend Cardboard Khomeini.
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Challah Hu Akbar has been providing Fresh Baked Middle East Nonsense since 2010. Challah "retired" from blogging in October 2011, but has remained a twitter enthusiast. Like Challah Hu Akbar on Facebook.Filed Under: Challah Hu Akbar • General
What the fu……
Actually I think I’d quite like a cardboard Khomeini, I could rig it up like Home alone to scare off burglars.
Who needs a dog
ROFLMAO. And aren’t those animals supposed to refrain from making images lest they revert to their pagan origins?
I am not religious but I think the Biblical prohibition against idolatry got it right thousands of years ago.
LOL! The top picture looks like something out of Southpark.
Too bad that Jimmy Carter didn’t have Seal Team 6 on his speed-dial.
The trouble with the world today, it’s plain to see, is Khomeini as a cardboard cut(out). (sung to the tune of “Coffee in a Cardboard Cup”)
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top picture,right hand row,seem to be stood wondering whats going on and a few seem/look as though they are scratching their heads.
no doubt the cardboard is bio degradeable and will just fall apart when wet,shame this cant be said of the real thing.
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