Iran to hold an exhibition of Holocaust cartoons

The Palestine Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran will host an exhibition of 839 works of the Second International Holocaust Cartoon Contest on May 9.

The exhibition, according to the curator of the competition, Masoud Shojaei-Tabatabai, will last 12 days, and all works have already been delivered to his office.

312 artists have entered their cartoons, including 104 artists from Iran and 208 from other countries, including Brazil, France, Turkey and China, Indonesia. The winner will receive a cash prize of $12,000, with those in second and third place taking home $8,000 and $5,000 respectively.

The organizers noted that the purpose of the competition is to display the West's double standards of freedom of speech and expression, RIA Novosti reports.

This year's competition is dedicated to Holocaust denial, it is a response to the French magazine Charlie Hebdo's cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.