NYPo, Iran shuts down popular coffee chain over cups supposedly celebrating
Khamenei’s death: report
Iranian authorities reportedly shut down a popular cafe chain on Saturday because of a coffee cup design that supposedly mocked the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Lamiz, often referred to as the Starbucks of Tehran, designed a coffee cup featuring a 1975 painting by Iranian artist Farshid Mesghali, which depicts an empty chair with purple and red rain drops falling down from above, according to Iran International.
All of its locations were shuttered by the goverment, the outlet reported.
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Hardliners of the Iranian regime and its supporters believed the empty chair was evocative of the seat that Khamenei — who was killed in a joint US-Israeli airstrike on Feb. 28 that launched the Iran war — was known to use and believed it was mocking the supposed “martyrdom” of the former leader of the Islamic Republic.
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