Iranian soccer players depicted as suicide bombers

A political cartoonist from a leading German daily newspaper has received death threats after publishing a caricature showing the Iranian national soccer team wearing belts of explosives next to four German soldiers.

Caricaturist Klaus Stuttmann said the idea of the cartoon, published in the Friday edition of the Tagesspiegel daily, was to challenge calls from some politicians for soldiers to provide security during this summer’s soccer World Cup in Germany.