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Iranian artist Hadi Asadi has beatenhundreds of other contestants to winfirst place in a Trumpism cartoon contest held in Tehran his winning caricature depicting President Trump as a flame-haired man wearing a suit made of dollar bills, drooling onto a pile of books.

The competition, called the International Trumpism Cartoon and Caricature Contest, was announced last month. It was organized by a group that hasalso organized cartoon contests on themes such as the Islamic State and the Holocaust (the group says the latter was designed to highlight double standards on free speech).

Trumps behavior clearly sets out Irans reasons to distrust the U.S.; consequently, we decided to use arts capacity for displaying the behavior,organizerAli-Asghar Jafari told reporters at the weekend.Aside from his personal characteristics, Trump has also posed different challenges to the world and treats Iran and the Islamic world unconventionally in particular.

President Trump said Iran is responsible for destabilizing the Middle East and supporting the Assad regime in Syria during a speech on May 21 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (The Washington Post)

Asadi received$1,500 in prize money on Monday. Hetold the Associated Press that he wanted to show the money-mindedness and warmonger nature of the U.S. president. Asadis Facebook page suggeststhat he created the artwork last year and that hehas produced numerous other similar caricatures over recent years, often of celebrities.

Organizers claim that artists from 75 countries took part in the contest, where 1,600 artworks were considered including four from the United States. Many of the cartoons compared Trump to Hitler a deliberate theme atthe event, which used a logo based on the Nazi emblem.

Mocking and satirizing U.S. leaders has long been an officially sanctioned pastime in post-revolution Iran part of a broadermovement that includes annual protests outside the former U.S. embassy in Tehran. Although these protests had generally grown less enthusiastic in recent years, Trumps fierce anti-Iran rhetoric seems to have reignited a desire to ridicule American leaders.

The exhibition accompanying the Trumpism cartoon contest opened July 3 the day before Americas Independence Day and the 29th anniversary of the day aU.S. fighter jet shot down an Iranian plane, killing all 290 passengers and crew members on board. The exhibition is due to remain open for a week, with a selection of the artworks to be showcased afterward in 11 other countries, according to organizers.

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