And military Shiism was born ....

This cartoon is a darkly sarcastic reinterpretation of the historic image of Ruhollah Khomeini arriving in Tehran after years of exile. His return, at the height of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, became one of the most iconic political moments in modern Iranian history and ultimately led to the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The cartoon draws on that familiar historical imagery to reflect on the long term consequences of the revolution and the system that emerged from it.