Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Across Europe, thousands of exiled Iranians are ...

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 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 ...

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 (AP) — 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 ...

LONDON — With one puff of a cigarette, a woman in Canada became a global symbol of defiance against Iran's bloody crackdown on dissent. A video that went viral in recent days shows the woman — who ...

A protester smokes a cigarette after lighting it off a burning poster of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a rally in support of Iran's anti-government protests, in Yalova, Turkey, ...

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 ...