Illustration: Gholam-Hossein Sa’edi, Firebird of the Screaming Forest, By the late Iranian-Assyrian Marxist painter Hanibal Alkhas, 1986, Berkeley. In a shocking act that has gone viral, a male monarchist desecrated the grave of Gholam-Hossein Sa’edi (the pen name: Gohar Morad), the iconic Iranian leftist writer, by urinating on it in Paris’s Père Lachaise Cemetery. Draped in an Israeli flag, the individual symbolically weaponized Sa’edi’s final resting place—a site sacred to Ira...
