Iranian women have been lighting cigarettes with burning images of the country’s supreme leader – Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – in a bold act of defiance. Videos and photos of the protest have been shared ...

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 ...

A single flame. A single photograph. And a message that is now circling the world.Iranian women are lighting cigarettes by burning the image of their Supreme Leader — and it is becoming one of the ...

A viral video showing an Iranian refugee lighting a cigarette using a burning image of Iran’s supreme leader has become a global flashpoint as protests rock the Islamic Republic and President Donald ...

LONDON — With one puff of a cigarette, a woman in Canada became a global symbol of defiance against Iran's bloody crackdown on dissent — and the world saw the flame. A video that has gone viral in ...