The world this week

KAL’s cartoon

Our regular illustrator, KAL, is away this week. We have chosen to re-run this poignant cartoon from 2012

KAL’s cartoon appears weekly in The Economist. You can see last week’s here.

Dig deeper into the subject of this week’s cartoon:

Iran’s electronic confrontation with Israel
How China, Russia and Iran are forging closer ties
Why Iran is hard to intimidate

From the August 31st 2024 edition

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