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 ...

Iranian women have been defiantly lighting cigarettes with burning images of supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei. Smoking in women is seriously frowned upon in the Middle Eastern nation, while setting ...

The woman dips a cigarette into the glow, takes a quick drag — and lets what remains of the image fall to the pavement. Whether staged or a spontaneous act of defiance — and there's plenty of debate — ...

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 ...

LONDON — With one puff of a cigarette, a woman in Canada became a global symbol of defiance against Iran's bloody crackdown on dissent.