From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ayotollah Ruhollah Khomeini sits cross-legged on a floor with his back to a wall on which are many hash marks that mark the passage of days during the Iran Hostage Crisis. He...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ayatollah Khomeini stands in front of a wall covered in vertical and diagonal tick marks and labeled, "Days in the lives of U.S. hostages." He holds a paper with four vertical...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini and Iraq’s Saddam Hussein each hold a lit bomb and are prepared to throw it at the other man. They are hiding behind oil storage tanks labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, is next to a large globe on a stand. He is spinning it around. Above the globe is "A spot someplace." The cartoon caption reads, "All I want...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The cartoon is an explosion with the word "Iran" in the center. The cartoon caption reads, "...From within."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini sits outside a building with a cityscape in the background. He is holding a pot of aromatic glue, sniffing it, and is becoming woozy. The pot is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. In the background is the top of a circus tent, with a flag that reads, "Iranian circus." In the foreground is a large cannon, out of which flies Abulhassan Banisadr. A sign in...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini holds a sign up in the foreground, with "Power to the ayatollah" on it. He is looking with worry over his shoulder at a large crowd of women in...
