With Iran's nationwide uprising entering its 14th day, a striking new image has emerged as the definitive symbol of defiance-women lighting cigarettes using the scorched remains of burning photographs ...

In November 2025, Omid Sarlak, a young man living in western Iran, posted a video on social media showing himself setting fire to a photograph of Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Just hours after the ...

Iranian women have been defiantly lighting cigarettes with burning images of supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei. Smoking in women is seriously frowned upon in the Middle Eastern nation, while setting ...