RELIGIOUS PROTESTERS IN IRAN VOICE ANGER AT NEWSPAPER OVER CARICATURE, 2003-01-12 (photo)

Religious protesters in Qom, a centre of Islamic teaching 80 miles (130 km) southeast of the Iranian capital Tehran voice anger on January 12, 2003 over a caricature published in a reformist newspaper owned by the brother of Iran's conservative supreme leader. The caricature, which depicts a robed, bearded figure sitting under a giant thumb, is considered by some clerics to bear a clear resemblance to the Islamic Republic's founding father Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who died in 1989. The Hayat-e No newspaper which published the drawing was closed down on January 11, 2003. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl CJF/WS