The first entry to the Iranian “holocaust cartoon” competition to come from Europe has been submitted.

Drawn by well-known professional cartoonist Robert Edwards, who was once famously jailed in 1981 in his native Britain for producing comic cartoon strips which also called into question the holocaust and multi-racialism in general, the cartoon shows the Iranian president popping the hot air balloon of Bush, Blair and Cheney, who are busy dropping bombs on Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine.

In his letter to the editor of the Iranian newspaper, Edwards wrote:  “I am in full agreement with the position of the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran on issues such as the alleged Holocaust and welcome his hosting of a conference on the subject. It proves there is more freedom of expression in Iran than in either America or Israel.

I would also like to inform you that I was jailed in England 25 years ago for the drawing of cartoons that offended the Board of Deputies of British Jews ... and so all this talk of the West's "cherished freedoms" is utter nonsense.”

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Other cartoonists can submit their work to the Iranians directly: email to info@irancartoon.com, in JPEG format.