Iraqi Cartoons

I received few Iraqi cartoons by e-mail from Iraqi groops; below are two of them.

The first cartoon shows the Iranian Brig. Gen. Qassem Suleimani, the commander of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force, holding a member of the Iraqi parliamentary delegation to Iran that carried documents prove the Iranian interference in Iraq. The flying papers are "the documents of the Iranian interference"

The Iraqi cleric says "By Abbas (an Imam) I won't do it anymore, I repent.

The second cartoon shows the Iraqi prime minister Nouri Al Maliki before (scarecrow) and after Basra events.

These cartoons show the opinions of many Iraqis as I see it and hear it.

These cartoons are by Mr. Salman Abed.

Comments

[David]

It reads right to left.

[Eve]

Thanks Laura, I was reading it from l to r, didn't catch the reference in the text. Cartoons capture things so much more effectively than words.

[Laura]

So, just to be sure, in the second cartoon, the before is on the right, just as one would read in Arabic, yes? With the message being that before Basra al-Maliki was perceived as useless, and now he is seen as a statesman?

What do cartoons say about Sadr City? How DO people feel about what is happening there?

Thanks for all you do, Dulaimy. Please stay safe.