The Ayatollah’s Escape Currency

Sanctions were designed to cut off a regime’s access to money, not to teach it new tricks. This cartoon points to a darker workaround, power laundering itself through cryptocurrency, where opacity replaces accountability and code replaces consequence. While ordinary Iranians pay the real price through poverty, repression, and bloodshed, the Supreme Leader glides above it all on a digital escape route, hands stained, wallet encrypted. The technology is modern, the violence is not. The medium has changed, the crime has not.