I have a technical question: Aren’t portraits of people forbidden in Islam? How can there be a portrait of the Supreme Ayatollah?
protests now breaking out in the smaller cities as well..seems to be a mix of age groups not just young people
https://twitter.com/borzou/status/947229793476636672
Only a portrait of Mohammad is forbidden. All his minions have no problem with adulation. Nor did Mao or the current leader of North Korea.
NO.
“Aren’t portraits of people forbidden in Islam? How can there be a portrait of the Supreme Ayatollah?”
No graven images is more of a fundamentalist Sunni thing, the Shi’ites have whole bunch of “holy men” with reputed magic powers that they keep pictures of, or visit the graves of, hoping for some benefit.