As a comment on events in Iran, Sareh Abdolahi's cartoon is subtler than Arvin's or Rostami's, which I've also posted today from the Persian Cartoons site. The green of the leaves on the top of the tree refers both to green as the emblematic colour of Islam, and to the life of the people as a whole within an Islamic state.

The metaphor of the swinging saw, decapitating the tree itself, is both a lament and a warning, as narrow-minded factions that are currently dominant in Iran eliminate the popular support that Ayatollah Khomeini was able to use to create the Islamic Republic in the first place. Faced with ever higher inflation, stagnant wages and shortages of essentials, the IRI is ripe for a change that is very hard to implement.

Abdolahi is one of the more acerbic cartoonists affiliated with Persian Cartoon group, and I find a private pain to her irony that the other contributors don't seem to have.