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Editorial cartoon: an Iranian foreign ministry spokesman at a podium holds two blank signs with contradictory gestures - fierce denial with one hand, pleading restraint with the other - while a missile arc crosses the sky through the window behind him and a staffer refuses to answer a ringing red telephone.

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Iran Has Nothing to Do With the Houthis. Also, Could the Houthis Please Stop?

Iran's foreign ministry denied any role in Houthi operations - then, in the same statement, asked the Houthis to cool it. That second sentence did most of the work.

Satire & commentary · 2026-10-17

Iran Has Nothing to Do With the Houthis. Also, Could the Houthis Please Stop?

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