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To Protest Iran’s Anti-Gay Abuses, an Artist Painted a Dictator’s Car
The Paykan was the first car or truck created in Iran. Made from 1967 to 2015, it began existence as a licensed copy of an outmoded British motor vehicle, the Hillman Hunter, but it nevertheless became a image of countrywide pleasure, priced for center-class Iranians. Paykans sooner or later grew to become ubiquitous on the streets of Tehran, serving as sedans, wagons, pickups and taxis. In 1974, as a token of link (or collusion) between two regimes, the shah of Iran gave a Paykan limousine to Nicolae Ceausescu, the Romanian dictator. That pretty vehicle built news again this May well among Iranians, at property and in the expatriate neighborhood, when…