Iran shuts down popular coffee chain over cups supposedly celebrating Khamenei’s death: report

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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